Carol (2015) Review
September 10, 2026
Carol (2015) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two women fall in love in 1952 and the film says almost none of it out loud. Todd Haynes shot it on Super 16 for under twelve million dollars…
Tag: Female Friendship
Friendship between women is written badly often enough that the good examples stand out. This tag collects reviews of films and fiction built on female friendship and what makes them work.
1990sThelma & Louise (1991) Review
September 10, 2026
Thelma & Louise (1991) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Callie Khouri wrote it in six months as her first screenplay and took the Academy Award for it. Two women leave for a fishing weekend and never…
1950sGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) Review
September 10, 2026
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) rates 8 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two women on a transatlantic crossing, one openly interested in money and honest about it. Sharper about the economics of marriage than any film of 1953 had…
2000sThe Holiday (2006)
May 19, 2026
Two women in unhappy relationships swap homes for Christmas across the Atlantic and find new romance during the holiday. The Holiday is Nancy Meyers's 2006 American-British romantic comedy depicting two women in unhappy relationships, an English country-newspaper columnist and an…
2000sJennifer’s Body (2009)
May 19, 2026
Karyn Kusama's 2009 American horror comedy with screenplay by Diablo Cody about a high school cheerleader possessed by a demon who feeds on her male class. Jennifer's Body is Karyn Kusama's 2009 American horror comedy depicting a high school cheerleader…
2010sCharlie’s Angels (2019)
May 16, 2026
Elizabeth Banks wrote, directed, and co-starred. The film made approximately seventy-three million dollars worldwide on a forty-eight million dollar budget.
2000sMiss Congeniality (2000)
May 16, 2026
Miss Congeniality is the Sandra Bullock comedy where she plays an FBI agent who has to go undercover in a beauty pageant. Marc Lawrence wrote, with revisions by Katie Ford and Caryn Lucas.
ComedyThe Itty Bitty Titty Committee
April 20, 2026
Four women meet in a fitting room and spend two years having Thursday dinners. A novel about adult friendship, with the humor and the damage in the same sentence.
Female FriendshipFilms Only Men Seem to Love
March 22, 2026
Twenty films that men watch seventeen times and women watch once — analyzed honestly for why each one resonates so specifically with male audiences, why women are more ambivalent, and what writers can learn from films that speak with a…
Female FriendshipMovies Women Love (And Men Roll Their Eyes At)
March 21, 2026
Twenty films that make women feel everything and men claim they're not crying — from Dirty Dancing to The First Wives Club, here's what makes each one actually work, and why the eye-rolling is a defense mechanism.