Latest articles by Monika Bartyzel
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Girls on Film: Ginger & Rosa's rare insight into teenage girlhood
feature British period pieces are teaching us lessons that Hollywood so often ignores
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Girls on Film: Why it's time to retire the term 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl'
feature This once-useful piece of critical shorthand has devolved into laziness and sexism
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Girls on Film: Insights from history's greatest female filmmakers
feature Words of wisdom from Kathryn Bigelow, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, and more
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Girls on Film: Independent film's shining, female-centric example
feature Big Hollywood blockbusters treat women as an afterthought. Independent film is a totally different story.
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Girls on Film: The Heat breaks new ground by not being groundbreaking
feature Critics have attacked the film for failing to rise above the conventions of a buddy-cop comedy — even though that's exactly the point
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Girls on Film: The Bling Ring is about all of us
feature As Sofia Coppola's new film shows, we no longer care about having experiences. It's all about documenting them so obsessively we don't realize we're having them
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Girls on Film: Stories We Tell is one of the year's must-see movies
feature Sarah Polley's intimate, powerful documentary questions the very nature of "truth." And you have to see it to believe it.
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Girls on Film: The real problem with the Disney Princess brand
feature The company's wildly profitable Disney Princess line sends a dangerous and regressive message to young girls. It's not too late to fix it.
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Girls on Film: 6 Oscar hosts who would be better than Seth MacFarlane
feature The controversial host won't be back for next year's ceremony. That's a good thing.
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Girls on Film: Helen Mirren could be one of Hollywood's great action heroes
feature Forget about Bruce Willis. Red 2 shows the value of letting a strong actress loose in an action franchise
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Girls on Film: How Hollywood changed for the better in 2014
feature New feminist discourse and new African-American talent are a hopeful sign for a more inclusive, diverse Hollywood in the years to come
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Girls on Film: The 4 percent problem for female directors continues in 2015
feature The new year extends a sad pattern
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Girls on Film: Gina Prince-Bythewood's ongoing struggle for racial diversity in romantic films
feature Director Gina Prince-Bythewood has spent her career making movies that push beyond Hollywood's typical definition of "diversity"
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Girls on Film: The immortal Mike Nichols
feature The legendary director, who died this week at 83, leaves one of Hollywood's most powerful and enduring legacies behind
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Girls on Film: Wonder Woman's powerful feminist roots
feature With a Wonder Woman movie on the horizon, Hollywood has finally learned to embrace the best qualities of the superhero
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Girls on Film: How Wild's Reese Witherspoon finally got a film worthy of her talents
feature The adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's bestselling memoir is Witherspoon's juiciest role in 15 years
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Girls on Film: Hollywood will try anything for a superhero movie — except a female director
feature The film industry is full of super-talented female auteurs. But when it comes time to pick a director for big-budget blockbusters, producers prefer untested men
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Girls on Film: Can the Veronica Mars movie make up for the show's mistakes?
feature Veronica Mars started strong, then stumbled. An upcoming film has the chance to make things right
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Why Agatha Christie is ready for a Hollywood revival
feature A new deal is poised to bring the bestselling mystery author's work to film and TV again — and the timing couldn't be better
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Girls on Film: 11 female athletes who deserve their own sports biopic
feature Hollywood's obsession with real-life sports stories rarely extends to women — but it should
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Girls on Film: Stephenie Meyer, of The Host and Twilight fame, is not anti-women
feature Meyer has repeatedly been attacked for the problematic messages of her novels — but the truth is far more complicated
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Girls on Film: Of course we need more female directors!
feature By banking on more female filmmakers, Hollywood can introduce stories and viewpoints that are all but unseen on the silver screen
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Girls on Film: The untapped talents of Sandra Oh
feature As the multitalented actress leaves Grey's Anatomy, Hollywood needs to remember she is far more than Dr. Cristina Yang
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Girls on Film: The superhero genre's 'giant green porn star' problem
feature Ignorant, sexist attitudes about female superheroes haven't changed — and until we demand it, they never will
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