film criticism by maryann johanson | 25 years: 1997–2022
A marvel of a sequel that smartly avoids any attempt to recapture the original, instead expanding its world in every way possible. Brisk, crisp, efficient, and full of masterful sequences of suspense.
“Hey, so you wanna go to the disneys tonight?”
Two tiny releases — both about women but both written and directed by men — are all that’s new on offer this week for anyone looking for women’s stories.
A lovely, gentle geek adventure that appreciates the importance of fandom as a source of inspiration and comfort, with a subtle and resolutely unsentimental performance by Dakota Fanning as an autistic fan.
Wild stab in the dark, but I’m gonna guess they don’t have any nonwhite people in powerful roles in marketing.
What if “monster trucks” actually meant — wait for it — that there were monsters in the trucks? From an idea by a four-year-old (really), and it shows.
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It’s pretty goddamn clear that the “magic bullet” is this: Hire more women.
