#Women Critics
Women Represent Just 35% of Film Reviewers, According to New Thumbs Down Report
Dr. Martha Lauzen and the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film have published the latest “Thumbs Down” report on gender representation in film criticism — and,...
Remaking Hollywood: Towards a Better, More Inclusive Future – A Conversation About Criticism
The Girls Club’s next Remaking Hollywood conversation will be with several critics and journalists to discuss what criticism looks like during the pandemic — and what could be different...
Sundance, SXSW, TIFF, & More Will Earmark Portion of Press Credentials for Time’s Up Critical
Several fests including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, TIFF, and Athena Film Festival will ensure more women, people of color, and other marginalized communities receive press credentials. According to...
New York’s Quad Cinema to Celebrate Late Film Critic Pauline Kael
New York’s Quad Cinema is set to celebrate the centennial of film critic Pauline Kael. The theater will screen 25 films that she revered, as well as a few that she trashed. “In the golden...
CherryPicks to Award Inaugural Female First Feature Prize at SXSW
CherryPicks, a review aggregator site and digital brand for women in film criticism, will be honoring a debut film from a female director at SXSW 2019. According to a press release, CherryPicks and...
Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here” Tops Bechdel Test Fest’s Best Films of 2018
Loved by critics and a winner at Cannes, Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here” has been largely shut out of the Oscar conversation. The revenge thriller is, however, getting...
Study: Women Wrote Only 21% of Reviews on 2015-17’s Top Films, POC Just 17%
A new study from Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative shows that, unfortunately, the severe underrepresentation of women critics and critics of color found in...
Rotten Tomatoes Updates Critics Criteria to Be More Inclusive, Adds Over 200 Tomatometer-Approved Writers
After recent studies from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative and the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film found that film criticism is dominated by white men, Rotten Tomatoes is...
Apply Now: New York Film Festival’s Critics Academy
If you’re hoping to break into the film criticism field, this workshop is for you. The Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) and Film Comment magazine are now accepting applications for the...
Women Dominate Inaugural Industry Academy International
The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Locarno International Film Festival have announced the participants the inaugural Industry Academy International U.S. and the group includes eight women out...
All-Female Ebert Fellows Cohort Announced for Sundance 2016
The recipients of the third annual Roger Ebert Fellowship for Film Criticism have been announced, and all three aspiring film critics this year are young women: Hunter Harris, Sara Alexandra Pelaez...
Thoughts on the Oscar Noms from Female Film Writers and Experts
Here are some thoughts from some people I reached out to earlier today about the Oscar nominations, in alphabetical order. Thelma Adams, Film Editor at ZEALnyc: First of all, I welcome more voices...
Women and Hollywood Podcast #6: Kate Muir, Chief Film Critic at The Times of London
Please listen to my podcast with Kate Muir, Chief Film Critic at the Times of London. We discuss Angelina Jolie’s Unbroken and Ava DuVernay’s Selma, as well as the holiday films that will be...
Divergent Leaps to the Top of the Box Office; Sequel Planned
Another action-romance with a female hero has dominated the weekend box office. Critics may not have liked Divergent, but audiences sure did. In addition to the $56 million weekend haul, the...
EDA Awards Honor Women Directors and Writers, Names Actresses Who Need New Agents
The Alliance of Women Film Journalists, in which our own Melissa Silverstein is a member, has announced their Best-of-2013 list. The big takeaway? Female critics have more or less the same tastes as...
RogerEbert.com Devoting This Week to Women Critics
Gender gaps don’t just plague the film industry, but the field of film criticism too. As we reported earlier this year, the numbers are pretty dire: The study took a look at the 2,000 reviews...
Quote of the Day: Manohla Dargis Putting the Button on Blue
Manohla Dargis has had some issues with the film Blue is the Warmest Color (which did very well at the box office in the US where it opened this weekend) since she saw it back in Cannes in May. In...
Women Critics Give Advice for Aspiring Critics
Every week Criticwire asks a handful of critics a question and publishes their responses. This week they asked critics what advice they would give to aspiring critics. We’ve highlighted the...