Reviews of movies and TV focused on women

Tag: Max Greenfield

  • Promising Young Woman, a revenge story like no other

    Promising Young Woman, a revenge story like no other

    Promising Young Woman is a brilliant new treatment of the revenge movie. It’s fresh and funny and barbed and full of heart. A masterwork. Written and directed by Emerald Fennell, the film is available to rent on Prime Video.

  • Review: Veronica Mars, season 4

    Review: Veronica Mars, season 4

    Veronica Mars, season 4, is available on Hulu. Creator Rob Thomas keeps the cast of characters true to their beginnings and puts them in the middle of a series of bombings in their small beach town. Over the years, so many people have cycled in and out of the cast of Veronica Mars. A Hollywood […]

  • Review: The Glass Castle

    Review: The Glass Castle

    The Glass Castle gut punched me when I read it about 10 years ago. It’s now a film. As a film, it still conveys the emotional wreckage of a dysfunctional family upbringing in vivid ways.

  • Review: Hello, My Name is Doris

    Review: Hello, My Name is Doris

    Hello, My Name is Doris starring Sally Field is an absolutely fabulous film in so many ways. Sally Field, as Doris, gives a fantastic performance. Is it better than her performances in Norma Rae or Places in the Heart? Maybe not, but it is 100% on the mark in creating the peculiar, unique individual known […]

  • Women Led Movies In Theaters this Weekend

    Women Led Movies In Theaters this Weekend

    Amid all the new movies out this week are three that feature female leads. If you are thinking of going to a theater as part of your weekend, one of these three would be a great choice.

  • Sally Field in Hello, My Name is Doris

    Sally Field in Hello, My Name is Doris

    Hello, My Name is Doris screened at SXSW to very good reviews and won a SXSW Film Festival Audience Award. I haven’t seen any news about it being picked up for distribution, but I want to mention the film just in case. I’ll keep an eye out on streaming services as well as for potential […]

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