Where Are the Women? Gone Girl
Offers a very regressive view of a woman’s power in our culture, one that is faux feminist and supports a hoary fantasy of what women are “supposed” to be. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
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Where Are the Women? The Judge
There isn’t a single woman here who is not defined exclusively as an adjunct to a man, even though there is plenty of room for women not limited by gender. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Virunga
A female journalist doing a dangerous job accounts for the positive score, though she is the only woman who appears onscreen in any meaningful capacity. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Leviathan
While the writing and the plotting may not be clichéd overall, the film’s only significant female character here serves a completely clichéd part in it. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Tangerines
Why the complete lack of women in a story about war impinging on civilian life? Does the presence of women “complicate” a “simple” story too much? [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Still Alice
Here we have a woman with a full, rich life and deeply troublesome problems that are uniquely her own. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me
One man’s story is not an exclusively male venture with the inclusion of female expert commentators, and his wife a partner in coping with his illness. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Begin Again
Busts clichés of the romantic drama and features a strong portrait of a woman artist with a complex inner and outer life. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Boyhood
Did it occur to Linklater to make Girlhood, with his daughter starring instead of supporting? Still, the dynamic depiction of the mother’s life is fantastic. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Where Are the Women? Fifty Shades of Grey
Woman as a passive sexual object of a man, depicted via a male gaze: it’s everything that is wrong with how Hollywood represents women onscreen. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
