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This week, all of our content on the site is written by women. We’ll update this table of contents page with links to new pieces as they go up. INTROS Introduction to Women Writers Week 2023 by Chaz Ebert & Nell Minow TV REVIEWS Stellar Acting Keeps Season Two of Perry Mason Afloat by Nandini…

March is Women’s History Month, and we are pleased to celebrate it this week at RogerEbert.com with our ninth edition of Women Writers Week (“WWW 23”). While we honor women’s writing and contributions to the film and television industry all year long, there is still a freshness in reading the views of a variety of women curated especially for this week. …

The visuals and score of Alex Garland’s adaptation of “Annihilation” seek to unsettle. Even five years later, the film evokes a specific sense of impending doom, a creeping realization that what is will no longer be, and the fear that comes with the unknowable. When we think about the movie, we think of a monstrous…

Screenwriters are often told that female characters have to be “relatable,” a term considered less offensive than “likable” and yet somehow an adjective rarely, if ever, applied to male characters. But ever since the earliest days of movies, audiences have loved to watch fiery, outspoken, courageous, and wicked female characters, from the Wicked Witch of the West…

Early on in writer/director Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon,” a tribute to the transitional period in Hollywood between the silent era and the invention of synchronized sound, there’s a showstopping sequence that sees two directors—Otto Von Strassberger (Spike Jonze), modeled on actor and director Erich Von Stroheim, and Ruth Adler (Olivia Hamilton), modeled on trailblazing director Dorothy…