film criticism by maryann johanson | since 1997
A deeply compassionate, deeply unnerving portrait of a man suffering from dementia and losing his grip on reality. The empathy machine of cinema has rarely been put to such uncomfortably intimate use.
The numbers are almost identical to the U.S. situation, which isn’t terribly surprising: the movies are mostly the same. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Women make up 50 percent of the moviegoing public, but telling stories about women continues to not be a primary concern for Hollywood. [This post is not behind the paywall.]
Julianne Moore’s terror at watching her own emotional and intellectual life slip away is palpable, and much scarier to me than any slasher movie.
Now with winners indicated.
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.]
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is one of the orgs for which I help choose year-end best-ofs.
