Gender Studies

Kino goes back to the classroom with How to Be a Man and How to Be a Woman

"...to Be a Man and How to Be a Woman and curated by the A/V Geeks' Skip Elsheimer. Frankly,..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Screens Feature by James Renovitch

Mother's Day

The movie is a moneymaking contrivance, just like the holiday itself

"...Mindy on TV and directed such movie hits as Pretty Woman and The Princess Diaries. Lately, however, Marshall has..."

April 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lauryn Paige Fuller Story

Eighteen-year-old Donald Scott Fuller was brutally murdered last year. Jordan Smith explores

"...with streaked blond hair and a baby face, the woman older and solemn, a look of distrust in her..."

Feb. 18, 2000 Features Feature by Jordan Smith

No Looking Back

"...Right; that is… unless you happen to be a woman stuck in an Edward Burns movie. Actually, the men..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ottoman Lieutenant

Corny romance set during the Armenian Genocide

"...taboo love between a Muslim man and a Christian woman develops further once Lillie arrives at the clinic, where..."

March 10, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Something New

Think Bridget Jones' lovelorn but marriage-obsessed single woman, only make her a neat-freak, not a basket case, and a comely African-American, not a plumpish, pasty Brit in this genre-tweaking romantic comedy.

"...romantic-comedy trappings. Think Bridget Jones' lovelorn but marriage-obsessed single woman, only make her a neat-freak, not a basket case,..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Life or Something Like It

"...coupled with Marilyn cleavage and coif) into a shaken woman who, when staring down death, regresses to the Social..."

April 26, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Monkey's Mask

"...yore, Jill's a sure sucker for a set of pretty gams. In this case, the gams belong to a..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Message in a Bottle

"...Paul Newman, Robin Wright and Kevin Costner. A young woman running along a drizzly Atlantic shoreline. A bottle washed..."

Feb. 12, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

My Father the Hero

"...and consternation, Nicole has blossomed into a nubile, 14-year-old child-woman with a heavy princess attitude, who not only resents..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Dolores

A stirring portrait of a social-justice pioneer

"...go off on marches or give speeches, making her pretty unconventional, even by Sixties standards. Her now-grown children are..."

Oct. 6, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Morning Glory

Well-acted and ingratiating, this rom-com starring Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, and Diane Keaton should still be tarter than it is.

"...for a similar mix of comedy and romance and working-woman woes. But again: Remember the flop sweat? There's no..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Easy A

The Scarlet Letter is refitted for the app age in this winning high school comedy.

"...The Scarlet Letter, that old chestnut about a passionate woman undone by her community’s unthinking castigation. Olive, who has..."

Sept. 17, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Life Before Her Eyes

Although Uma Thurman and Evan Rachel Wood deliver strong performances, this film from the director of House of Sand and Fog is a muddled affront.

"...than a thriller. Both films traipse inchoately through a woman's disturbed consciousness, offering themes and striations but no patterns..."

April 25, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

We Don't Live Here Anymore

What people fight about when they fight about love.

"...best friend, Hank (Krause), is a stalemated writer and womanizer married to the long-suffering, near-catatonic Edith (Watts); they don’t..."

Sept. 3, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Alias Betty

"...She is joined by her mother Margot (Garcia), a woman suffering from a blood disease that makes her do..."

Dec. 27, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Float

A Type-A doctor-in-training enjoys a summer romance in small-town Canada

"...original book was a success but deeply generic (young woman goes to a remote town to find herself and..."

Feb. 9, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Little Women

Relish the contemporary touches in this new version of Alcott’s classic

"...(Ronan), because how else could a story about a woman possibly end, goes his argument. That might have been..."

Dec. 20, 2019 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Wonder Wheel

Woody Allen's ode to Coney Island

"...unlike Manhattan, this perfunctorily conceived film about an unhappy woman starved for romantic and personal fulfillment never lives up..."

Dec. 8, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Dinner

Family ties come undone in this dark drama

"...a party one night, end up killing a homeless woman. Grainy video footage of the killing has made it..."

May 5, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Ruby Sparks

Ruby Sparks tries hard, and though it's a likable film she never completely sparks.

"...him by his shrink births Ruby Sparks (Kazan), a woman who had first appeared in his dreams. But through..."

Aug. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

She's Out of My League

An average guy finds the woman of his dreams, but his insecurities undermine the relationship.

"...looks, accomplishments, or ambitions, caught the eye of a woman who far outpaces him on pretty much any plane..."

March 19, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Perfect Stranger

The fishy smell that permeates Perfect Stranger comes from all of the red herrings flopping around this absurdly plotted Hollywood thriller.

"...you can never outguess this movie is that it’s pretty much phony to the core, ultimately little more than..."

April 20, 2007 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Puccini for Beginners

A lesbian on the rebound falls for both a guy and a gal in this rom-com with roots in old Hollywood screwball comedies.

"...droll NYU philosophy professor Philip (Kirk) – and a woman, Grace (Mol, last seen in the altogether as The..."

April 6, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Catch and Release

An archetypal date movie with a good heart, Catch and Release is the lightweight story of a widow (Jennifer Garner) who discovers that you never really know a person.

"...That said, this story of Gray (Garner), a young woman widowed on her wedding day who discovers her husband-to-be's..."

Jan. 26, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saving Face

In this breezy Chinese-American coming-out comedy, ethnic, generational, and family identities collide with the anything-goes ethos of modern love.

"...as well – by pursuing a romance with another woman (Lynn Chen). Nothing about the film’s concept is earth-shattering;..."

July 1, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Eye

"...Here the lucky winner is Mun (Lee Sin-je), a pretty young Chinese woman who has been blind since a..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

From Hell

"...Ripper's hellish doings in the Whitechapel district, with fallen woman Heather Graham by his side, is a thing of..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

From Script to Screen

"...it got a little bizarre. One writer (and I'm pretty sure that it was Texas Monthly ex Bill Broyles)..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Screens Feature

Trial by Jury

"...that Hollywood had churned out yet another slick and pretty waste of celluloid. However, watching the entire film changed..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

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