Latest articles by Monika Bartyzel
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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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Girls on Film: Lucy is the shot in the arm the superhero genre needs
feature By questioning the very humanity of its protagonist, Lucy shows the limitations of Hollywood's favorite genre — and points to a new direction going forward.
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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: Aspiring female filmmakers need male mentors, too
feature Hollywood's creative elite have relied on established mentors for decades — but women have rarely been a part of the equation
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Goodbye, Bunheads
feature The tragically short-lived ABC Family series, which was canceled this week, offered a raft of smart, compelling female perspectives
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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: Hollywood should stop pretending it's hard to make a female superhero movie
feature The Golden Age of Cinematic Superheroes has relegated women to underwritten supporting roles
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Girls on Film: 8 femme-centric movies from the Toronto International Film Festival
feature Our roundup of the most notable movies by and about women from this year's festival
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Girls on Film: The danger of the 'female filmmaker' label
feature Calling on Hollywood to improve the roles of women carries a significant risk for female filmmakers. But someone must step up and do it.
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Girls on Film: A documentary series that finally puts women back in the history books
feature PBS and MAKERS have teamed up to shed light on the unjustly forgotten accomplishments of women over the past 50 years
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Girls on Film: How the new Carrie fails to tell the story it should be telling
feature Bullying among teenage girls has never been more relevant — but Kimberly Peirce's Carrie misses the chance to tell the real story
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Girls on Film: How They Came Together saved the romantic comedy by blowing it up
feature David Wain's satire of the romantic comedy shows just how far charm can get you
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Girls on Film: How Divergent breaks new ground in the YA genre
feature Unlike Twilight or The Hunger Games, Divergent centers its narrative on the growth of a distinctly human girl
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Girls on Film: Laggies embraces a new era of self-discovery
feature Lynn Shelton's latest presents a woman who seems like she can't grow up — then pivots to challenge the very definition of adulthood
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Girls on Film: Why Before Midnight is a failure
feature The Oscar-nominated script for the third entry in Richard Linklater's acclaimed series totally whiffs on what made the first two films so special
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Girls on Film: Blue Is the Warmest Color is a sexed-up failure
feature The Palme d'Or winner takes an emotional graphic novel about a lesbian relationship and turns it into yet another sexualized, voyeuristic lesbian love story
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Girls on Film: Concussion isn't really about lesbian prostitution
feature Stacie Passon's new film, which follows a woman who turns to the sex trade after a head injury, is far more relatable than its premise might sound
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Girls on Film: Before Midnight and the evolution of one of cinema's most dynamic women
feature Over three films and nearly two decades, Celine is not only allowed to appear and intrigue us, but also to reappear and challenge us
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Girls on Film: Her is a beautiful exploration of love — but a flawed exploration of women
feature Spike Jonze's critically acclaimed romance has fascinating things to say, but we never quite get to know "her"
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Girls on Film: How sexism is destroying the comic book industry
feature Even as superheroes thrive at the box office, comics creators continue to employ sexist and misogynistic depictions of women
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Girls on Film: The darkly sexual lessons of Nymphomaniac
feature Provocation is not consent — even though many men think it is
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Girls on Film: The hidden feminism of Audrey Hepburn
feature Hepburn's legacy as a fashion icon has overshadowed the feminist messages of her films
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Girls on Film: 10 lesbian filmmakers you should know about
feature In honor of WorldPride, a look at some of filmdom's most talented lesbian filmmakers
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Girls on Film: Girlfriends, the most influential film about female friendship you've never heard of
feature Modern hits like Ghost World, Girls, and Frances Ha can be traced back to Claudia Weill's groundbreaking 1978 film
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