movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Aug 24
Emily Mortimer opens a bookshop; Melissa McCarthy investigates puppet murder; more…
Melissa McCarthy
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri May 11
Elisabeth Moss, Saoirse Ronan, Mare Winningham, and Annette Bening take on Chekhov; Gemma Arterton runs away from her family; and more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Thu May 10
A thriller about a real-life female Indian spy, a documentary about a Saudi woman who fights religious extremism, and more…
Life of the Party movie review: cut this class
The complete lack of conflict overshadows even the cringeworthy attempts at physical comedy. Where’s the story in a woman who positively sails through her midlife crisis? The endearing McCarthy deserves so much better.
AWFJ 2016 EDA Awards winners announced
Moonlight leads, with seven awards…
Ghostbusters movie review: boo yeah!
Kate McKinnon’s gleefully reckless physicist is brainy comic mayhem, unlike any female character we’ve seen before. And there are more reasons to cheer.
The Boss movie review: hooray for girl power (boo for nowhere near enough)
Plays with hierarchies and rivalries of women’s lives that often aren’t seen onscreen, and embraces women as powerful. But it’s just not very funny about it.
Spy movie review: the other gals
Does some wonderfully seditious feminist things while also being funny as hell. Finally, we are asked to laugh with Melissa McCarthy, not at her.
Tammy movie review: women behaving badly
Dumb, pointless, unentertaining crap. But at least it’s about women. Yay? Nah.
The Heat review: buddy crap
Meanspirited where it’s meant to be funny. Misogynist crap is still misogynist crap when it stars women.
