Men (2022)

This fascinating movie plays with the idea that a woman can hold herself open and available to men, or else retreat in increasingly smaller boxes and sequester herself away from their incursions, and although there's a visual trickery involved as the horror encroaches upon poor Harper alone in a manor in the English countryside, the horror she is fleeing from is not supernatural.

★★★★☆

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Judy (2021)

If your impression of Judy Garland is that she was a kooky pill-popping drunk and terrible mum who abandoned her kids to chase money, then you are not wrong but this biopic contextualises that image, revealing the terrible effect upon Judy of her showbiz mum as well as the Weinsteinian influence upon her of numerous entertainment industry men, and really, how could anyone stay sober and on the rails standing each night in front of the theatre audiences of London, depicted in this movie as a schizophrenic group that laugh, laud and worship Judy one night, pepper her with tomatoes and boos the next before mawkishly serenading her the one after that!

★★★☆☆

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