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A pantheon of one’s own: 25 female film critics worth celebrating

A selection of critics and curators each nominate a vital female voice in film criticism, with an example of their writing.

Miriam Bale, Anne Billson, Mark Cousins, Jemma Desai, Bryony Dixon, Jane Giles, Pamela Hutchinson, Nick James, Violet Lucca, Sophie Mayer, Henry K Miller, Nathalie Morris, Nick Pinkerton, Jonathan Romney, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Claire Smith, Kate Stables, Francine Stock, Isabel Stevens, Matthew Sweet, Ginette Vincendeau, Thirza Wakefield, Ben Walters, Catherine Wheatley, Rob Winter
Sunday 8 March 2015

Features
Toon of the month: Yield

Reanimation: Caleb Wood pays tribute to those felled on the byway, says Chris Robinson.

Chris Robinson
Thursday 5 March 2015

Bytes
She who wears the trousers

In Hollywood movies, the trousered female still stands apart, says Brad Stevens.

Brad Stevens
Thursday 5 March 2015

Bradlands
From the Magazine

Film of the week: Dreamcatcher

Neither ‘happy hookers’ nor tragic victims, the women of Kim Longinotto’s latest game-changing documentary are helping themselves out of helplessness – together. Sophie Mayer on a redoubtable portrait.

Sophie Mayer
Thursday 5 March 2015

Reviews and recommendations
From the Magazine

Film of the week: It Follows

David Robert Mitchell’s imaginative young-adult twist on horror’s implacable-pursuit mode puts rare emphasis on virtue and solidarity, says Kim Newman.

Kim Newman
Friday 27 February 2015

Reviews and recommendations
Films for film’s sake: Tromsø 2015

James Bell reports on how the ‘Paris of the north’ flies the flag for cinema in the Arctic circle.

James Bell
Thursday 26 February 2015

Festivals
Lang may yer lum reek: Glasgow at the movies

Emma Jackson reviews the Mitchell Library’s exhibition celebrating the city’s history of gallus film-going.

Emma Jackson
Thursday 26 February 2015

Reviews and recommendations
Inside your head: conceptual science fiction

Low-budget, high-philosophy sci-fi forays – including the recent Ex Machina, Predestination and Coherence – remind us of the intrinsic visionary potential of imaginative narrative and editing, says Jonathan Romney.

Jonathan Romney
Tuesday 24 February 2015

Features
From the Magazine

The great game: Adam Curtis’s Bitter Lake

The extraordinary footage assembled in Adam Curtis’s powerful film about the tangled history of Afghanistan offers some welcome insights – but in his bid to counteract the lazy fables of good and evil beloved of some politicians, is the director in danger of oversimplification too? By Jason Burke.

Jason Burke
Monday 23 February 2015

TV
I turn my back on you: black movie poster art

Isabel Stevens on black film posters that both succumbed to and defied racism.

Isabel Stevens
Sunday 22 February 2015

The pictures