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Mary Elizabeth Williams

Mary Elizabeth Williams's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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The Go-Go's (2020) 98% EDIT “Watching the film, it's pure pleasure to witness such scrappy exuberance, such mayhem so enthusiastically pursued.” – Salon.com Aug 3, 2020 Full Review Athlete A (2020) 100% EDIT “There are moments in Athlete A that will make you gasp at the brazen brutality of Nassar's crimes. Yet it never feels prurient or sensationalized.” – Salon.com Jun 25, 2020 Full Review Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020) 93% EDIT “Gadsby is no everywoman, her worldview is entirely her own. That's why she stands out, at once fiercely and quietly, like a tiny, perfect lion.” – Salon.com Jun 5, 2020 Full Review Resistance (2020) 57% EDIT “It feels important to remember what humans can endure in the darkest hours, and that those hours can pass. Most significantly, Resistance is a reminder of the truly lifesaving work of artists.” – Salon.com Mar 30, 2020 Full Review EMMA. (2020) 86% EDIT “This new "Emma." -- yes, with a period affixed to the name -- is one that knows in its bones that Austen wrote the first great teen comedy, and runs with that joyfully.” – Salon.com Feb 22, 2020 Full Review Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) 79% EDIT “Come for the ass kicking, stay for the takedown of rape culture.” – Salon.com Feb 8, 2020 Full Review Little Women (2019) 95% EDIT “It acknowledges the tradeoffs we still have to reckon with, but it celebrates them. And it brilliantly, movingly puts forth the simple, timeless notion that sisterhood is always powerful.” – Salon.com Dec 26, 2019 Full Review Cats (2019) 19% EDIT “There's something uniquely fun about seeing the likes of Ian McKellen and Jennifer Hudson fully committing to their down-on-their-paws characters, a spirited sense of shared strangeness.” – Salon.com Dec 23, 2019 Full Review Her Smell (2018) 83% EDIT “For all its yelling and theatrics, Her Smell can't even be bothered to figure out where the outlet is.” – Salon.com Apr 11, 2019 Full Review Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) 97% EDIT “As Oscar winner Morgan Neville's timely, tear-duct lubricating documentary "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" makes clear, the easily parodied, often underestimated icon of children's television was a total badass.” – Salon.com Jun 14, 2018 Full Review Get Out (2017) 98% EDIT “By focusing the storyline on a particular form of racism -- the kind that's often disguised as peculiar envy -- Get Out reveals something more insidious.” – Salon.com Mar 27, 2017 Full Review Austenland (2013) 32% EDIT “It says weirdos deserve romance too, and that Austenland isn't so much a page in a book or a place on a map, but a corner of your heart.” – Salon.com Aug 16, 2013 Full Review You've Been Trumped (2011) 88% EDIT “As Baxter demonstrates with agonizing, unflinching clarity, the result was a community and a land that were literally rolled over in the name corporate greed - and with the apparent blessing of the local authorities.” – Salon.com Aug 3, 2012 Full Review A Little Bit of Heaven (2011) 4% EDIT “A moment of silence, please, for Kate Hudson's career.” – Salon.com May 3, 2012 Full Review 50/50 (2011) 93% EDIT “What ensues is "Beaches" meets "Pineapple Express." Which, I've got to tell you, is pretty much what living with cancer is like.” – Salon.com Sep 30, 2011 Full Review I Don't Know How She Does It (2011) 17% EDIT “What the hell happened to Sarah Jessica Parker?” – Salon.com Sep 15, 2011 Full Review Bridesmaids (2011) 89% EDIT “It's a movie that succeeds, often beautifully, not by forcing its characters to be as naughty and gross and pathetic as men are. It soars by letting them be as naughty and gross and pathetic as women are. Three cheers for equality.” – Salon.com May 10, 2011 Full Review Water for Elephants (2011) 60% EDIT “The problem isn't just miscasting or the cheesiness of the material. It's Pattinson's increasingly predictable, dour persona.” – Salon.com Apr 21, 2011 Full Review The Karate Kid (2010) 67% EDIT “It was resonant in the gung-ho '80s, and it's a notion every generation deserves to discover anew. Based on the young Smith's considerable wattage, this Kid may just surpass the original.” – Salon.com Jun 11, 2010 Full Review Shrek Forever After (2010) 58% EDIT “Like last year's Up, this isn't merely a cute kid's movie with funny one-liners and adorable critters. It's a soulful meditation on the age-old question: Is that all there is?” – Salon.com May 21, 2010 Full Review Letters to Juliet (2010) 42% EDIT “Letters to Juliet is a by-the-numbers romantic comedy -- and I mean that in a good way.” – Salon.com May 13, 2010 Full Review Date Night (2010) 67% EDIT “What comes as a welcome surprise is how Date Night manages to make sport of romantic movie conventions without being mean about them.” – Salon.com Apr 9, 2010 Full Review Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) 48% EDIT “When the movie slows down to catch its breath, there's very little of the heart and soul -- and wry wit -- that make the Riordan books so beloved.” – Salon.com Feb 11, 2010 Full Review Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2009) 12% EDIT “While it fails on nearly every conceivable level, as a textbook case in everything contemptible in the studio system, Did You Hear About the Morgans? is as good as it gets.” – Salon.com Dec 21, 2009 Full Review The Princess and the Frog (2009) 86% EDIT “The sweetest, most sincere romantic comedy to come along in ages, and a luminous love letter to a great American city.” – Salon.com Nov 24, 2009 Full Review
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