Reviews

This was a terrific movie year for sticking it to the patriarchy.

I didn’t expect to walk out of a Hunger Games movie with a roots music buzz, but I’m not complaining! 

The Royal Hotel opens with a scene whose vibe will be familiar, I think, for most women.

The indie thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline is uniquely successful on several fronts. It adapts a manifesto into a compelling action movie! It updates the…

It was incredibly gratifying to see so many female-focused, and directed, nonfiction entries again dominate an event once ruled by Harvey Weinstein. 

Maybe this year’s narrative features at Sundance were the best ever, or maybe my mediocre-movie radar has simply improved. In any case, I didn’t find a bad…

There is a moment, in the chaos of the climactic battle of Avatar: The Way of Water, when Zoe Saldana’s alien heroine Neytiri is furiously…

In my career as a film critic, there’s always been an implied litmus test for Top Ten candidates that the majority of them be a)…

The reason She Said works so well is right in the title. 

Nobody’s making rom-coms like they used to, or so people have lamented. If you believe that, I guess you might take it on blind faith…