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AWFJ 2015 EDA Awards winners announced

Tue, Jan 12, 2016
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Spotlight takes four awards, including Best Film…

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OFCS 2015 awards winners announced

Mon, Dec 14, 2015
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Mad Max: Fury Road gets a lot of love…

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does film criticism have a future?

Thu, Jul 09, 2015
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As you may have already heard, film criticism site The Dissolve announced yesterday that it was shutting down…

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AWFJ 2014 award winners

Wed, Jan 14, 2015
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The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is one of the orgs for which I help choose year-end best-ofs.

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OFCS 2014 award winners

Thu, Dec 18, 2014
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The Online Film Critics Society is one of the orgs for which I help choose year-end best-ofs.

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even The New York Times has given up on quality film journalism

Thu, Aug 14, 2014
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Two well-off white men on class warfare, what’s good for women in Hollywood, and — most importantly — some movies they haven’t even seen yet.

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young indie filmmaker apologizes for inventing a quote from me to promote his film

Fri, Jul 25, 2014
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And I’m done with this.

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punk-ass indie filmmaker fakes a quote from me to support his movie, gets smacked, hides like a chickenshit (updated)

Thu, Jul 24, 2014
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How Not to Be an Aspiring Filmmaker, Young Asshole Edition.

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why movies like Under the Skin and Nymphomaniac are not feminist

Mon, Apr 14, 2014
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These films act like what it means to be a woman is purely about sex and bodies, purely about interacting with men in no other way than a sexual one.

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“can women save film criticism?”

Thu, Mar 13, 2014
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If it’s a thankless, underpaid job… then of course it’ll be left to women to do. Thanks, guys!

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