Belle movie review: untold stories
Wonderful true story about a mixed-race woman raised in aristocratic late-18th-century England; like the best Jane Austen romance with a social conscience.
directed by women
The Punk Singer documentary review: rage against the misogyny
A fantastic introduction to original riot grrrl Kathleen Hanna and her groundbreaking work in music, feminism, and all-around kickass awesomeness.
Gone Too Far! review (London Film Festival)
Something like a Shakespearean comedy, full of highly amusing, sharply drawn characters…
Maidentrip review: all is found
A remarkable documentary about a remarkable kid, and an incredibly optimistic look one young person making her dreams come true.
Austenland review: bomb and bombasticity
Austenland, allow me to tell you how ardently I loathe and despise you.
Inch’Allah movie review: it’s not all about us
The striking story of a Western doctor in Palestine and her long, hard path to the realization that all of her good intentions can barely begin to counter the tidal wave of history she has chosen to surf.
Blackfish review (Sheffield Doc/Fest)
A horrifying, heartbreaking eye-opener about human inhumanity to other intelligent and emotional beings who share our planet.
Zero Dark Thirty movie review
If only this were a wholly fictional story, I could get behind it 100 percent, instead of the 95 percent I can give.
Wadjda (London Film Festival review)
Delightful and powerfully satisfying, an arthouse crowd-pleaser about a charmingly irrepressible protagonist… (new DVD/VOD UK)
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (review)
There is no question that Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and vocal dissident of China’s repressive dictatorship, is one of the most colorful and most significant global figures of the early 21st century…
