MdW – Movies directed by Women
MdW (visual) movie rating
Good humor
Feel-good movie with too many characterizations and un-worked facets to have a greater impact than entertaining
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,2
Metascore 6,2
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 6,9
TMDB 6,5
Critics average 5,8
Audience average 6,9
Cast: Peter Mullan, Brenda Blethyn, Billy Boyd
Director: Gaby Dellal
Writer: Alex Rose
Music by Stephen Warbeck
Cinematography by David Johnson
Film Editing by Robin Sales, John Wilson
Excellent minority representation
A story for children with an ambitious script and many connotations, but irregularly directed and awfully static at times
Very special racially-mixed cast
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,9
Metascore 4,0
Roger Ebert 1,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 4,6
IMDB 5,7
TMDB 6,3
Average critics 3,4
Average public 5,5
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Carter Thomas, Ava Fillery, Derek Jacobi, Michael Caine
Director: Brenda Chapman
Writer: Marissa Kate Goodhill
Music by John Debney
Cinematography by Jules O’Loughlin
Film Editing by Dody Dorn
Good gender content and expression
Interesting contrast between two women having a new relationship: one is a housewife in the 1960s, the other one a 2000s assertive young woman
The musical score using songs of the 1960s does not bring anything to the movie and makes it more of a cliché
Chaotic and bland direction
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,5
Metascore 5,7
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 6,8
TMDB 7,5
Critics average 5,8
Audience average 7,2
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Joe Alwyn, Wendy Nottingham
Director: Augustine Frizzell
Writers: Nick Payne, Esta Spalding, Jojo Moyes
Music by Daniel Hart
Cinematography by George Steel
Film Editing by Melanie Oliver
Good script, direction, images, gender content, message and expression
Excellent personages
Top minority presence
Rocks is the name of a girl in her teens who has to care for her younger brother after their mother suddenly disappears,,, A story about surviving physically but also emotionally; a story about loyalty, loyalty towards family, loyalty towards friends…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,8
Metascore 9,6
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 7,6
Average critics 9,2
Average public 7,7
Cast: Bukky Bakray, Kosar Ali, D’angelou Osei Kissiedu
Director: Sarah Gavron
Writers: Theresa Ikoko
Music by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch
Cinematography by Hélène Louvart
Film Editing by Maya Maffioli
Good images, gender content, minority representation and expression
A story that could have had more impact without the historical (WW2) setting and the superfluous flashback
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore 5,6
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,0
TMDB 7,8
Average critics 6,1
Average public 7,6
Cast: Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Penelope Wilton
Director: Jessica Swale
Writer: Jessica Swale
Music by Volker Bertelmann
Cinematography by Laurie Rose
Film Editing by Tania Reddin
Good personages, dialogues, direction, images and minoeity representation
A movie that shows how duty but especially honor plays a central role in patriarchy
A typical 19th-century costume drama with quiite a dynamic script – a pity that the last scene is so ‘frozen’
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,4
IMDB 6,0
TMDB 4,9
Average critics 4,4
Average public 5,8
Cast: Christian Slater, Jared Leto, Claire Forlani
Director: Radha Bharadwaj
Writers: Radha Bharadwaj, Wilkie Collins (novel)
Music by Richard G. Mitchell
Cinematography by David Johnson
Film Editing by Craig Nisker
Unconvincing script
Excellent images, music and minority presence
The underneath in the title is the place where everyone stores all the pain and all the love…
A piercing voice repeats “she’s pretty, she’s got a pointless mind” …
But as to understand what it’s all about, it’s another story
IMDB 6,9
Cast: Sheila Allen, Jane Arden, Jack Bond
Director: Jane Arden
Writers: Jane Arden
Cinematography by Jack Bond, Aubrey Dewar
Film Editing by David Mingay
Music: Sally Minford
Easy to watch but lacks surprises
The movie transforms London into a (beautiful) village
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,5
Metascore 5,2
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 6,1
Average critics 3,6
Average public 6,9
Cast: Shelley Conn, Shannon Tarbet, Celia Imrie
Director: Eliza Schroeder
Writers: Jake Brunger (screenplay), Jake Brunger (story) | 2 more credits »
Music by Enis Rotthoff
Cinematography by Aaron Reid
Film Editing by Jim Hampton, Laura Morrod
Good dialogues, humor, images and music
Excellent script, personages and direction
Top gender content, minority presence and message
Miss World competition, London 1970
The movie brings the organizers, the participants, and the protesters together, without neglecting some of the complexities of the time (apartheid, sexism…)
A historical piece of the ‘women’s lib’ era (second wave), its universal connotations having not lost its implications for us today
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,0
Average critics 6,5
Average public 6,4
Cast: Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Writers: Rebecca Frayn (story written by), Rebecca Frayn | 1 more credit »
Music by Dickon Hinchliffe
Cinematography by Zac Nicholson
Film Editing by Úna Nà DhonghaÃle
Great humor and images
Excellent dialogues and direction
Top gender content
How to lose yourself… and find yourself again… and lose yourself again… You know the feeling? A very original coming-of-age movie… Enjoy!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore 7,0
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,4
Average critics 6,6
Average public 5,4
Cast: Beanie Feldstein, Emma Thompson, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Sarah Solemani, Laurie Kynaston, Lucy Punch
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Writer: Caitlin Moran
Cinematographer: Hubert Taczanowski
Editor: Gareth C. Scales
Composer: Oli Julian
Good script and minority representation
Excellent dialogues, images, music and gender content
Top direction
Fine and clever direction that emphasizes, among other things, the extremely narrow limits within which women and men of the time and of this social class had to behave, creating thus an extremely codified society
A real Jane Austen treat!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,8
Average critics 7,7
Average public 7,3
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart
Director: Autumn de Wilde
Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Writer: Eleanor Catton
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
Editor: Nick Emerson
Composer: David Schweitzer, Isobel Waller-Bridge
Great script, personages, images and message
Excellent direction
Top gender content
A movie about a 17-years-old young girl who has to deal with a pregnancy that wasn’t planned and that she doesn’t want
A movie about girl power, without much glamour, just girls doing what has to be done
A quiet but intense movie
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,6
Metascore 9,2
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 7,2
Average critics 8,9
Average public 7,0
Cast: Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin
Director: Eliza Hittman
Writer: Eliza Hittman
Cinematographer: Hélène Louvart
Editor: Scott Cummings
Composer: Julia Holter
Good personages, dialogues, direction and music (8)
Excellent script (9)
A good movie on the ‘formative’ years of John Lennon in Liverpool
Strong acting, especially the two mothers
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,9
Metascore 6,7
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,4
IMDB 7,1
Average critics 7,5
Average public 7,3
Cast: Aaron Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall, Thomas Brodie Sangster
Written by Matt Greenhalgh
Directed by Sam Taylor-Wood
Music by Alison Goldfrapp, Will Gregory
Cinematography by Seamus McGarvey
Film Editing by Lisa Gunning
Good dialogues and direction
A children tale
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,9
Metascore 7,4
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,0
IMDB 7,3
Average critics 8,4
Average public 7,7
Cast: Kate Maberly, Heydon Prowse, Andrew Knott, Laura Crossley, Maggie Smith
Director: Agnieszka Holland
Writers: Frances Hodgson Burnett (book), Caroline Thompson (screenplay)
Music by Zbigniew Preisner
Cinematography by Roger Deakins
Film Editing by Isabelle Lorente
Good gender content
In this movie, Marie Curie spends more time affirming herself against male dominance than unveiling what her real genius consisted of.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,0
Metascore 5,6
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 6,1
Average critics 5,5
Average public 6,4
Cast: Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Aneurin Barnard, Anya Taylor-Joy, Simon Russell Beale
Director: Marjane Satrapi
Based on the book by Lauren Redniss
Writer: Jack Thorne
Cinematographer: Anthony Dod Mantle
Editor: Stéphane Roche
Composer: Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
Weak direction and message
Some interesting personages and situations but the whole doesn’t get anywhere.
The choice to use the deep, almost broken voice of a veteran smoker as voice-off for Laurie Lee is difficult to link to the main personage of the film whom we only see as a boy and in his teens.
IMDB 6,4
Cast: Timothy Spall, Samantha Morton, Georgie Smith
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Writers:Ben Vanstone, Laurie Lee (based on the book by)
Music by Peter Salem
Cinematography by Julian Court
Film Editing by David Thrasher
Good humor and images
Excellent personages and direction
Top script + content
An excellent adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s classic play about class, responsibility, guilt, honesty, and…
A world that will need a most terrible war to (almost) disappear
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 7,7
Average critics 8,0
Average public 8,0
Cast: Sophie Rundle, Lucy Chappell, Miranda Richardson
Director:Â Aisling Walsh
Writers: J.B. Priestley (based on the play by), Helen Edmundson (adapted by)
Music by Dominik Scherrer
Cinematography by Martin Fuhrer
Film Editing by Alex Mackie
Excellent script, personages and direction
Top gender content, minority presence and message
Miss World competition, London 1970
The movie brings the organizers, the participants, and the protesters together, without neglecting some of the complexities of the time (apartheid, sexism…)
A historical piece of the ‘women’s lib’ era (second wave), its universal connotations having not lost its implications for us today
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,0
Average critics 6,5
Average public 6,4
Cast: Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Writers: Rebecca Frayn (story written by), Rebecca Frayn | 1 more credit »
Music by Dickon Hinchliffe
Cinematography by Zac Nicholson
Film Editing by Úna Nà DhonghaÃle
Excellent personages, dialogues, direction, music and gender content
Top images and minority presence
On the track of Exhibition, a very complex and extremely dense love story presented in an erupted form (thanks to Joanna Hogg’s long collaboration with editor Helle le Fevre)
Intelligent use of a rich musical score (Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Verdi’s La Forza del Destino)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,1
Metascore 9,1
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 4,8
IMDB 6,5
Average critics 9,1
Average public 5,7
Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton
Director: Joanna Hogg
Writer: Joanna Hogg
Cinematographer: David Raedeker
Editor: Helle le Fevre
Excellent script, direction, images and message
Top music
Complex movie with no clear-cut line to help you find your way through its multiple layers / complexity enhanced by the very special touch of Helle le Fevre
Houses and locations (not to mention distribution of space) play an important role in Joanna Hogg’s work: a Tuscan villa in Unrelated, a Cornwall cottage in Archipelago, a modern architectural house in London.
Excellent work on image, sound, content
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore 7,2
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,7
Average critics 7,2
Average public 5,7
Cast: Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick, Tom Hiddleston
Director:Â Joanna Hogg
Writers:Â Joanna Hogg
Cinematography by Ed Rutherford
Film Editing by Helle le Fevre
Excellent dialogues, images, music and gender content
Top direction
Fine and clever direction that emphasizes, among other things, the extremely narrow limits within which women and men of the time and of this social class had to behave, creating thus an extremely codified society
A real Jane Austen treat!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,8
Average critics 7,7
Average public 7,3
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart
Director: Autumn de Wilde
Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Writer: Eleanor Catton
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
Editor: Nick Emerson
Composer: David Schweitzer, Isobel Waller-Bridge
Good personages, direction, images and minority representation
Excellent script, dialogues and message
Top gender content
A complex story with many intertwined facets: a priest who condemns a father committing incest but who himself commits the abomination of homosexual relationships / a priest who cannot say what he hears during confession, even though it would stop someone’s sufferings / the church as an ideologically corrupt institution / the meaning of celibacy, of pardon…
Recommended!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 2,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 7,0
Average critics 4,9
Average public 7,6
Cast: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Cathy Tyson
Directed by Antonia Bird
Written by Jimmy McGovern
Music by Andy Roberts
Cinematography by Fred Tammes
Film Editing by Susan Spivey
Excellent dialogues and direction
Top gender content
How to lose yourself… and find yourself again… and lose yourself again… You know the feeling? A very original coming-of-age movie… Enjoy!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore 7,0
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,4
Average critics 6,6
Average public 5,4
Cast: Beanie Feldstein, Emma Thompson, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Sarah Solemani, Laurie Kynaston, Lucy Punch
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Writer: Caitlin Moran
Cinematographer: Hubert Taczanowski
Editor: Gareth C. Scales
Composer: Oli Julian
Good script, personages, direction and images
Top dialogues
Message: Love has a multitude of facets (how poor of us, we have only one word to embrace them all)
The critics did not like this movie, and although many of their observations are somewhat justified, I cannot understand why: a movie with such rich dialogues, a movie that is able to show so many facets of love at play within its 6 main personages – not to talk about the way Virginia Woolf from a frail and unstable woman becomes dominant, self-assured…
A much richer and finer movie than many many others that the same critics have appreciated… But yes, it have to say it at least once: through the years, I’ve noticed time and again that critics are much harder with female than with male directors…
You may judge by yourself…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,6
Metascore 4,3
Roger Ebert 3,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 5,5
Average critics 4,6
Average public 6,4
Cast: Elizabeth Debicki, Gemma Arterton, Isabella Rossellini, Rupert Penry-Jones, Peter Ferdinando, Emerald Fennell
Director: Chanya Button
Screenplay: Eileen Atkins, Chanya Button
Original Music Composer: Isobel Waller-Bridge
Director of Photography: Carlos De Carvalho
Editor: Mark Trend
Excellent direction
Top gender content
A movie about a 17-years-old young girl who has to deal with a pregnancy that wasn’t planned and that she doesn’t want
A movie about girl power, without much glamour, just girls doing what has to be done
A quiet but intense movie
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,6
Metascore 9,2
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 7,2
Average critics 8,9
Average public 7,0
Cast: Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin
Director: Eliza Hittman
Writer: Eliza Hittman
Cinematographer: Hélène Louvart
Editor: Scott Cummings
Composer: Julia Holter
Excellent script and message
The multi-layer approach brings the viewer close to the personal drama through the (somewhat weak) romance between a Muslimah and an Hindu, to the community level inside the Viceroy’s house; to the national level with the political problems involved with the partition; and briefly to the geopolitical level… Smartly done!
The weak romance story is offset by a good depiction of the historical and political events surrounding the departure of the English from India.
At one moment in the movie, the partition of India is compared to that of Palestine and of Ireland, other British colonies that have suffered greatly. Unfortunately, Chadha does not dig deeper into the subject…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,0
Metascore 5,3
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,7
Average critics 5,9
Average public 7,0
Cast:Â Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Manish Dayal, Simon Callow, Om Puri, Lily Travers, Huma Qureshi
Director:Â Gurinder Chadha
Writer: Gurinder Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, Moira Buffini
Cinematographer:Â Ben Smithard
Editor:Â Valerio Bonelli, Victoria Boydell
Composer: A.R. Rahman
Excellent message
How powerful can ‘ordinary love’ be for both partners, the one who is sick and the one who has to care for the other
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,7
Metascore 7,3
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,6
Average critics 7,9
Average public 6,9
Cast: Liam Neeson, Lesley Manville, David Wilmot, Amit Shah
Director: Lisa Barros D’Sa. Glenn Leyburn
Writer: Owen McCafferty
Cinematographer: Piers McGrail
Editor, Nick Emerson
Composer: David Holmes, Brian Irvine
Excellent dialogues and direction
Top gender content
How to lose yourself… and find yourself again… and lose yourself again… You know the feeling? A very original coming-of-age movie… Enjoy!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore 7,0
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 5,4
Average critics 6,6
Average public 5,4
Cast: Beanie Feldstein, Emma Thompson, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Sarah Solemani, Laurie Kynaston, Lucy Punch
Director: Coky Giedroyc
Writer: Caitlin Moran
Cinematographer: Hubert Taczanowski
Editor: Gareth C. Scales
Composer: Oli Julian
Excellent script, personages and direction
Top gender content, minority presence and message
Miss World competition, London 1970
The movie brings the organizers, the participants, and the protesters together, without neglecting some of the complexities of the time (apartheid, sexism…)
A historical piece of the ‘women’s lib’ era (second wave), its universal connotations having not lost its implications for us today
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 6,0
Average critics 6,5
Average public 6,4
Cast: Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley
Director: Philippa Lowthorpe
Writers: Rebecca Frayn (story written by), Rebecca Frayn | 1 more credit »
Music by Dickon Hinchliffe
Cinematography by Zac Nicholson
Film Editing by Úna Nà DhonghaÃle
Excellent direction
Just as in The Other Boleyn Girl, the story of a personage – this time a man – who succeeds in charming a powerful man and acquires fame and richness, but overplays his hand and loses everything.
Excellent cast
IMDB 7,1
Cast: James Purefoy, Hugh Bonneville, Phil Davis
Director:Â Philippa Lowthorpe
Writers: Simon Bent (screenplay), Ian Kelly (biography)
Music by Peter Salem
Cinematography by Graham Smith
Film Editing by David Thrasher
A movie that shows how English noble society in the 16th century considered its women: worthless, only to be used in a sexualized context, either as seducers or as procreators of (male) heirs
The rise and fall of a woman who wanted more
IMDB 6,1
Cast: Natascha McElhone, Jodhi May, Jared Harris
Director:Â Philippa Lowthorpe
Writers: Philippa Gregory (novel), Philippa Lowthorpe
Music by Peter Salem
Cinematography by Graham Smith
Film Editing by Jonathan Morris
Excellent direction
Obscure quest, decrepit environment, bestial relationships, a father-daughter macrocosm, an homage to Tarkovsky…
A movie rich in suggestions without giving any clear direction to the viewer
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,5
Metascore 7,7
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,6
IMDB 5,9
Average critics 8,4
Average public 5,8
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, Mia Goth
Director: Claire Denis
Writer: Claire Denis, Geoff Cox, Jean-Pol Fargeau
Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux
Editor: Guy Lecorne
Composer: Stuart Staples, Tindersticks
Excellent images, music, and gender content
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,4
Metascore 6,8
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 6,2
Average critics 6,6
Average public 7,2
Cast: Karen Gillan, Lee Pace, Matthew Beard
Director:Â Karen Gillan
Writer: Karen Gillan (screenplay)
Music by Pepijn Caudron
Cinematography by Edd Lukas
Film Editing by Brett W. Bachman
Great script, personages, images and message (8)
Excellent direction (9)
Top gender content (10)
A movie about a 17-years-old young girl who has to deal with a pregnancy that wasn’t planned and that she doesn’t want
A movie about girl power, without much glamour, just girls doing what has to be done
A quiet but intense movie
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,6
Metascore 9,2
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,8
IMDB 7,2
Average critics 8,9
Average public 7,0
Cast: Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin
Director: Eliza Hittman
Writer: Eliza Hittman
Cinematographer: Hélène Louvart
Editor: Scott Cummings
Composer: Julia Holter
Excellent dialogues, images and music (9)
Top direction (10)
Fine and clever direction that emphasizes, among other things, the extremely narrow limits within which women and men of the time and of this social class had to behave, creating thus an extremely codified society
A real Jane Austen treat!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,8
Average critics 7,7
Average public 7,3
Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Johnny Flynn, Bill Nighy, Mia Goth, Josh O’Connor, Callum Turner, Rupert Graves, Miranda Hart
Director: Autumn de Wilde
Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Writer: Eleanor Catton
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
Editor: Nick Emerson
Composer: David Schweitzer, Isobel Waller-Bridge
Excellent dialogues, direction, images (9)
Top personages (10)
An older woman gradually loses touch with the present, but the memories of her past help solve a crime
The script could have been less anecdotic but what Walsh has built around it makes one easily forget its shortcomings
Fantastic Glenda Jackson playing a very difficult personage
(no poster yet…)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,7
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 7,9
Average critics 8,7
Average public 7,9
Cast: Glenda Jackson, Maggie Steed, Sophie Rundle
Director:Â Aisling Walsh
Writers: Andrea Gibb (adaptation), Emma Healey (novel)
Music by Dominik Scherrer
Cinematography by Lukas Strebel
Film Editing by Alex Mackie
Top music (10)
A movie about the consequences of genetically modifying our environment
Bold visual and musical combination, very special score by Teiji Ito
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,4
Metascore 6,0
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,8
IMDB 5,9
Average critics 5,8
Average public 5,9
Cast: Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox, Sebastian Hülk, Goran Kostić
Director: Jessica Hausner
Screenplay: Géraldine Bajard
Writer: Jessica Hausner
Director of Photography: Martin Gschlacht
Editor: Karina Ressler
Excellent personages, dialogues, direction and music (9)
Top images (10)
On the track of Exhibition, a very complex and extremely dense love story presented in an erupted form (thanks to Joanna Hogg’s long collaboration with editor Helle le Fevre)
Intelligent use of a rich musical score (Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle, Verdi’s La Forza del Destino)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,1
Metascore 9,1
Roger Ebert 10,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 4,8
IMDB 6,5
Average critics 9,1
Average public 5,7
Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton
Director: Joanna Hogg
Writer: Joanna Hogg
Cinematographer: David Raedeker
Editor: Helle le Fevre
A movie heavy on Bruce Springsteen
Its themes similar to Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham: segregation, integration, traditions, and the powerful influence a celebrity can have on a teenager
What bothers most is not the omnipresent Springsteen, but the inapropriate ‘all is well’ ending
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,3
Metascore 7,1
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,8
IMDB 6,9
Average critics 7,7
Average public 7,9
Cast: Viveik Kalra, Nell Williams, Hayley Atwell, Kulvinder Ghir, Aaron Phagura
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Writer: Gurinder Chadha, Sarfraz Manzoor, Paul Mayeda Berges
Director of Photography: Ben Smithard
Editor: Justin Krish, Susie Figgis
Music: A. R. Rahman, Bruce Springsteen
Good script, personages, direction, images, and content (8)
Good performances
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,9
Metascore 6,4
Roger Ebert 6,3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 6,9
Average critics 6,2
Average public 7,1
Cast: Emily Watson, John Turturro, Geraldine James, Stuart Wilson
Directed by Marleen Gorris
Written by Peter Berry
Based On The Novel by Vladimir Nabokov
Music by Alexandre Desplat
Cinematography by Bernard Lutic
Film Editing by Michiel Reichwein
Good personages, direction (8)
Post World War One in the UK. A story that brings in parallel two personage whose experience relates to the old world: the soldier who suffers from PTSD and can’t enjoy that he’s still alive in the 20th century when his companion is dead; the cosmpolitan lady who still lives in the fancies of the 19th century and organizes parties to keep this world alive.
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,5
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 8,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 6,6
IMDB 6,6
Average critics 7,7
Average public 6,6
Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone, Rupert Graves, Michael Kitchen, Alan Cox
Directed by Marleen Gorris
Written by Eileen Atkins
Based On The Novel by Virginia Woolf
Music by Ilona Sekacz
Cinematography by Sue Gibson
Film Editing by Michiel Reichwein
Weak script (4)
Bad humor (3)
(but good music)
A terminally ill young woman choses to end her life in a place where (rich) dying people can have their last desires fulfilled.
Doesn’t put euthanasia into any perspective, just one of sadness…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 4,3
Metascore 3,3
Roger Ebert 3,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 5,2
IMDB 5,8
Average critics 3,8
Average public 5,5
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Eva Green, Charlotte Rampling, Charles Dance
Director: Lisa Langseth
Writer: Lisa Langseth
Cinematographer: Rob Hardy
Editor: Dino Jonsäter
Composer: Lisa Holmqvist
Good dialogues, music and content (8)
Excellent direction (9)
Top images (10)
A movie made some 20 years before the so-called refugee crisis of today and that shows that, then as now, immigrants are only acceptable when they are… dead!
Appreciated by the public, but not so by the critics
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,1
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 5,0
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,8
IMDB 6,8
Average critics 5,1
Average public 7,3
Cast: Rachel Weisz, Vincent Perez, Ian McKellen, Kathy Bates, Joss Ackland
Directed by Beeban Kidron
Written by Tim Willocks
Music by John Barry
Cinematography by Dick Pope
Film Editing by Alex Mackie, Andrew Mondshein
Good dialogues, direction, images, music, and content (8)
A black female lead in a predominantly white cast (see the poster!)
A very agreeable movie with lots of surprises
The last scenes probably meant to reconcile all the facets of the film were not really necessary
Rotten Tomatoes Critics —
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 6,5
Average critics —
Average public 6,5
Cast: Rakie Ayola, Vanessa Redgrave, John Hurt, Jonathan Pryce
Director:Â Beeban Kidron
Writer:Â Jeanette Winterson
Music by Rachel Portman
Cinematography by Remi Adefarasin
Film Editing by John Stothart
Money does not make one happy, but friends do… at least that is what I understood
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,4
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 6,7
Average critics 5,4
Average public 7,2
Cast: Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Steve Sweeney
Director:Â Antonia Bird
Writer: Ronan Bennett
Music by Paul Conboy, Adrian Corker, Andy Roberts
Cinematography by Fred Tammes
Film Editing by St. John O’Rorke
Good personages, direction, images (8)
Excellent script, dialogues, content (9)
A complex story with many intertwined facets: a priest who condemns a father committing incest but who himself commits the abomination of homosexual relationships / a priest who cannot say what he hears during confession, even though it would stop someone’s sufferings / the church as an ideologically corrupt institution / the meaning of celibacy, of pardon…
Recommended!
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 7,2
Metascore —
Roger Ebert 2,5
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 7,0
Average critics 4,9
Average public 7,6
Cast: Linus Roache, Tom Wilkinson, Cathy Tyson
Directed by Antonia Bird
Written by Jimmy McGovern
Music by Andy Roberts
Cinematography by Fred Tammes
Film Editing by Susan Spivey
Good humor, music, content (8)
Excellent dialogues, direction, images (9)
Top personages (10)
An older woman gradually loses touch with the present, but the memories of her past help solve a crime
The script could have been less anecdotic but what Walsh has built around it makes one easily forget its shortcomings
Fantastic Glenda Jackson playing a very difficult personage
(no poster yet…)
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,7
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 8,1
Average critics 8,7
Average public 8,1
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,7
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience —
IMDB 8,1
Average critics 8,7
Average public 8,1
Cast: Glenda Jackson, Maggie Steed, Sophie Rundle
Director:Â Aisling Walsh
Writers: Andrea Gibb (adaptation), Emma Healey (novel)
Music by Dominik Scherrer
Cinematography by Lukas Strebel
Film Editing by Alex Mackie
Good humor and images (8)
Excellent personages and direction (9)
Top script + content (10)
An excellent adaptation of J.B. Priestley’s classic play about class, responsability, guilt, honesty, and…
A world that will need a most terrible war to (almost) disappear
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 8,0
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,2
IMDB 7,7
Average critics 8,0
Average public 8,0
Cast: Sophie Rundle, Lucy Chappell, Miranda Richardson
Director:Â Aisling Walsh
Writers: J.B. Priestley (based on the play by), Helen Edmundson (adapted by)
Music by Dominik Scherrer
Cinematography by Martin Fuhrer
Film Editing by Alex Mackie
Good script, personages, dialogues, images, content (8)
Excellent direction (9)
A movie about fighting fascisme, whether abroad or at home. A very actual theme indeed!
Aisling Walsh takes us in the world of an Irish reformatory school that keeps the self-esteem of the boys in its charge as low as possible.
An excellent work that she further builds up with Maudie and her most recent Elizabeth is Missing.
I especially appreciated the fact that she did not push the story to emotional extremes but kept a low-tone that reinforces its strength
Looking forward to see more of her work
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,8
Metascore —
Roger Ebert  —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 8,4
IMDB 7,6
Average critics 5,8
Average public 8,0
Cast: Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc Warren
Director:Â Aisling Walsh
Writers: Aisling Walsh, Kevin Byron Murphy, Patrick Galvin (book)
Music by Richard Blackford
Cinematography by Peter Robertson
Film Editing by Bryan Oates
Good script, personages, direction and images (8)
Top dialogues (10)
Message: Love has a multitude of facets (how poor of us, we have only one word to embtace them all)
The critics did not like this movie, and although many of their observations are somewhat justified, I cannot understand why: a movie with such rich dialogues, a movie that is able to show so many facets of love at play within its 6 main personages – not to talk about the way Virginia Woolf from a frail and instabile woman becomes dominant, self-assured…
A much richer and finer movie than many many others that the same critixs have appreciated… But yes, it have to say it at least once: through the years, I’ve noticed time and again that critixs are much harder with female than with male directors…
You may judge by yourself…
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 5,6
Metascore 4,3
Roger Ebert 3,8
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,2
IMDB 5,5
Average critics 4,6
Average public 6,4
Cast: Elizabeth Debicki, Gemma Arterton, Isabella Rossellini, Rupert Penry-Jones, Peter Ferdinando, Emerald Fennell
Director: Chanya Button
Screenplay: Eileen Atkins, Chanya Button
Original Music Composer: Isobel Waller-Bridge
Director of Photography: Carlos De Carvalho
Editor: Mark Trend
Good humor and direction (8)
Original, surprising and fun first feature
Pity the end doesn’t match the raw savagery of the first hour
Rotten Tomatoes Critics 6,2
Metascore —
Roger Ebert —
Rotten Tomatoes Audience 7,6
IMDB 7,0
Average critics 6,2
Average public 7,3
Cast: Laura Carmichael, Chloe Pirrie, Julian Rhind-Tutt
Director:Â Chanya Button
Writer:Â Charlie Covell
Music by Marc Canham, Candy Says
Cinematography by Carlos De Carvalho
Film Editing by Mark Trend
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