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Annlee Ellingson

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The Boys of Baraka (2005) 76% EDIT “Ewing and Grady’s special talent is gaining the trust of their protagonists and sharing such intimate moments with us that we care.” – CineWomen Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Folktales (2025) 85% EDIT “Ewing and Grady braid in the Norse mythology of three Norns — powerful deities who shape humans’ futures by weaving threads of fate. It’s a rich metaphor, returned to again and again.” – CineWomen Sep 13, 2025 Full Review It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) 98% EDIT “A profound elegy of profound loss.” – CineWomen Sep 13, 2025 Full Review East of Wall (2025) 95% EDIT “"East of Wall" juxtaposes the romanticism of horsewomanship against an otherworldly backdrop with the hardship, poverty, and resilience of West River womanhood.” – CineWomen Sep 13, 2025 Full Review Freakier Friday (2025) 73% EDIT “This setup provides a showcase for Curtis’ unique charm when she’s portraying a teenager trapped in the body of an older woman. The iconic actress gives voice to the horrors of aging ... and she’s having the time of her life doing it.” – CineWomen Sep 13, 2025 Full Review I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025) 36% EDIT “Treading a fine line between nostalgia and unoriginality.” – CineWomen Jul 30, 2025 Full Review The Old Guard 2 (2025) 27% EDIT “A waste of a kickass pairing in what could have been a fun and provocative franchise.” – CineWomen Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Oh, Hi! (2025) 64% EDIT “Viewers will find themselves going along with it because Iris (Molly Gordon) especially is gosh-darn charming.” – CineWomen Jul 30, 2025 Full Review Sorry/Not Sorry (2023) 82% EDIT “There’s a lot of soul-searching in Sorry/Not Sorry. ... Not, however, by the subject of the documentary itself.” – CineWomen Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Proof (1991) 94% EDIT “Proof’s lack of clarity is its appeal: a character study inside an enigma that’s never solved — Martin McGrath’s cinematography makes sure of that, positioning the frame so that we don’t know what’s true and what’s a lie.” – CineWomen Aug 1, 2024 Full Review The Fabulous Four (2024) 28% EDIT “There’s a feminist anthem at the heart of The Fabulous Four — to not acting your age, to valuing friendships, to childless cat ladies. Unfortunately, it’s buried under clumsy monologues, cringey special effects, and a pile of tulle.” – CineWomen Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Zola (2020) 88% EDIT “What started as a Twitter thread so epic it earned the hashtag #TheStory has been transformed into a wild and woolly big-screen adaptation that not only honors its audacious social-media origin story but marks the breakthrough of a bold, fresh voice.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Worth (2020) 81% EDIT “Though it’s unlikely that [Kenneth] Feinberg’s personal growth was tied so neatly to how the [9/11] dispensation actually played out, thematically this development can’t help but reflect on the current political climate.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review The World to Come (2020) 74% EDIT “The World to Come is a rapturous, inevitably tragic, love story that suggests resolution only in its titular eschatological phrase.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) 34% EDIT “What means to be a whodunit that leaves the reveal to the very, very end, Where the Crawdads Sing, directed by Olivia Newman, instead sucks all of the mystery out of a murder trial that offers no alternatives to the theory at hand.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review The Watermelon Woman (1996) 92% EDIT “A quarter of a century later, The Watermelon Woman suggests that ’90s indie is a genre unto itself. ... For those who came of age as cineastes during that era, it’s a nostalgic nod to that gritty aesthetic and an important milestone in New Queer Cinema.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Wadjda (2012) 99% EDIT “[Director Haifaa] Al-Mansour doesn’t explain the particulars of Saudi culture for Western viewers. Rather, she drops us in, sans exposition, to experience and piece it together ourselves.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Tiny Furniture (2010) 79% EDIT “A dozen years later, [Lena Dunham's] clear-eyed portrait of herself and her friends and the women who relate to them is astute as ever, demonstrating a keen self-awareness at its most unflattering.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Time (2020) 98% EDIT “[Time asks viewers] whether they believe in time served and second chances, and to bear witness to a prison-industrial complex built on the legacy of slavery.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Stray (2021) 96% EDIT “These dogs’ lives are scrappy, sometimes ugly, but also — elevated by [directory Elizabeth] Lo’s quotes of the dog-obsessed Greek philosopher Diogenes — charismatic and noble.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) 94% EDIT “By casting and working with nonpros, from a treatment with scenes she wrote each morning, [Chloé] Zhao taps into stories — perhaps much like theirs — with authenticity and empathy.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Sharp Stick (2022) 50% EDIT “As confounding as the character’s quirks are ... what follows is a sex-positive journey of self-discovery that’s a sweet as it is explicit.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Respect (2021) 68% EDIT “Draping the film in a nostalgic haze, [director Liesl] Tommy suggests a lack of clarity during these early years as Aretha stumbles toward freedom, driven by a stirring soundtrack of hit after hit, and powered by [Hudson's] performance.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Real Women Have Curves (2002) 85% EDIT “Coming up on its twentieth anniversary, the movie was perhaps ahead of its time with its authentic, at times very funny portrayal of a Latinx family in a Los Angeles little seen on the big screen, and body-positive messaging right in the title.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Quo Vadis, Aida? (2020) 100% EDIT “The horror experienced by Aida — and this entire town — is only emphasized in a devastating coda that demonstrates just how depraved these events were, and how profoundly the world failed them.” – CineWomen Jul 29, 2024 Full Review
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