Tag: Widows

  • Review: Widows, updated

    Review: Widows, updated

    Widows is crammed with star power, blessed with an engaging but tricky plot, and is a paen to female empowerment. I was expecting lots of action from the women, but the story built slowly toward a few moments of action at the end. I first reviewed this movie in 2018, but added updates in 2025…

  • The Vulnerable Tissue of His Brain

    The Vulnerable Tissue of His Brain

    I’m reading “The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen. (affiliate link) It’s a Pulitzer Prize winning novel about a spy – a communist sympathizer living in America after the end of the Vietnam war.

  • There are so few women-written reviews of “Widows,” it’s ridiculous!

    There are so few women-written reviews of “Widows,” it’s ridiculous!

    So I wrote a review of Widows. I’m a woman. I was reading a review by another woman, Carmen Phillips, at Autostraddle. I suddenly had a burning desire to see just how many Widows reviews by women I could find.