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Alyx Vesey

Alyx Vesey's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Pariah (2011) 95% EDIT “To me, a film that engenders that sort of hope and possibility is worth gas money, an $8 ticket, and a trip to the concession stand.” – Bitch Media Jan 12, 2021 Full Review High Art (1998) 78% EDIT “[Ally Sheedy's] excellent as Berliner.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) 65% EDIT “The anticlimactic epilogue may suggest that these women-and all women-are in a continued state of becoming. This statement speaks to Varda's significance as a filmmaker.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Me Without You (2001) 68% EDIT “Writer-director Sandra Goldbacher's 2001 feature Me Without You... serves as further evidence for the kind of actress Williams was to become.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review XXY (2007) 83% EDIT “If it isn't exactly a happy ending, it's at least an acknowledgment that her character will develop long after the credits roll. Sometimes that's the best we can hope for.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review An Angel at My Table (1990) 96% EDIT “Angel's clear-headedness and unadorned filmmaking makes it all the more powerful.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Irma Vep (1996) 94% EDIT “Irma Vep is a magnificently varied film, integrating film footage, press interviews, gossip, and film's hurry-up-and-wait production schedule. Cheung in particular does a masterful job playing herself, at once transparent and opaque.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Please Give (2010) 85% EDIT “Though some may argue that the film doesn't fully challenge white female privilege (or tire of Kate's crying), it's to the film's credit that it uses this as character detail and tries to mine humor and social commentary from it.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Show Me Love (1998) 91% EDIT “The tentative nature of these couplings and the social environments that could threaten to undermine them suggest that these stories are only beginning. But I'm rooting for both couples anyway. Call me a romantic.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Water Lilies (2007) 81% EDIT “The film lacks much insight into the characters' subjectivities.... [But] I think the relationships developed and intimacies shared in [Water Lilies is] moving and deeply felt.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Saving Face (2004) 88% EDIT “Saving Face could get really preachy if it wanted to. But that it addresses multiple concerns with a light touch is one of its virtues.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review I, You, She, He (1974) 100% EDIT “Je tu il elle illustrates why the enthusiastic fandom and hushed reverence it receives it feels earned.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Set It Off (1996) 71% EDIT “An important film that continues to challenge old and new audiences.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Made in Dagenham (2010) 80% EDIT “The film's success resides in its ability to balance the mundane with the revolutionary. I was moved by stolen moments between Hawkins and Lisa Hopkins (Pike).” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review I Like It Like That (1994) 89% EDIT “I admire the film for suggesting these characters work through a variety of emotions as they encounter a range of experiences. Life, like theater, balances tragedy with comedy. This film gets that and puts a woman at its center. I like it like that.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Hanna (2011) 71% EDIT “Even though there are misogynistic undercurrents to the fatal gunshot wound Hanna delivers... Weigler will never die because she lives on in Hanna, and her story will be retold and revised just like the fables women and girls pass on to one another.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) 93% EDIT “[Ana] Torrent guilelessly captures the terror and wonder of imagination's possibility that so informs childhood experience.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Bandidas (2006) 56% EDIT “Despite its sticky ethics and crude slapstick, I thought Bandidas was fun.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review D.E.B.S. (2004) 43% EDIT “As much as D.E.B.S. was a passion project for [filmmaker Angela] Robinson... it is foremost a fun, silly action comedy about sends up Charlie's Angels.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review The Watermelon Woman (1996) 92% EDIT “In creating a rich, complex film about the processes of filmmaking and the interstices of identity, Dunye's The Watermelon Woman gets at the risk and reward involved in creating one's own history, which so often melds truth with fiction.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982) 86% EDIT “We could make a number of conjectures about Altman's relationship to the cast of Come Back, but I do have to say it boasts one hell of an ensemble.” – Bitch Media Jan 11, 2021 Full Review Passion Fish (1992) 100% EDIT “I hope that films that share Passion Fish's politics continue to be made and improved upon. I just hope more directors of color, and female directors of color in particular, get to make them.” – Bitch Media Jan 9, 2021 Full Review Daisies (1966) 88% EDIT “A silly trifle demonstrating formal innovations, radical yet contentious gender politics, and harsh consequences.” – Bitch Media Jan 9, 2021 Full Review The Lollipop Generation (2008) EDIT “Though their are sad aspects to this tenuous, nomadic, and potentially dangerous lifestyle, it's to [filmmaker G. B.] Jones' credit that she doesn't pathologize her subjects too much or force them into endless exploitative tragedies.” – Bitch Media Jan 7, 2021 Full Review Volver (2006) 91% EDIT “As emotionally devastating as it is visually stunning.” – Bitch Media Jan 7, 2021 Full Review
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