The Alliance of Women Film Journalists is delighted to welcome fifteen outstanding women film journalists as new AWFJ members. They are Read more

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This year’s ballots present 44 opportunities for voting members of the Academy of Motion Arts and Sciences to honor women with their industry’s ultimate peer recognition.

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Though it cannot help but be somewhat formulaic—a talented dancer faces obstacles to succeeding in life—“How She Move” freshens up the mix by taking as its protagonist a working class Black girl, Raya, who is struggling to remain enrolled at an expensive private high school. Read more>>

Despite an appealing lead and admirable emphasis on education and intelligence, “How She Move” can’t overcome the cliches and contrivances of screenwriter Annmarie Morais’ story. Read more>>

“How She Move” does something that few other step-dancing/street-dancing/win-the-big-show hip-hop movies have managed to do. It surrounds its flashy moves with interesting, well-developed characters and a realistic story that should resonate with teens and adults alike. Read more>>

A young woman is forced reconcile her upwardly mobile ambitions with her roots in a crime-ridden community in this formulaic but well-acted variation on the theme of pursuing your dreams through dance. Read more>>

Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, this is a bleak, low-key, intimate glimpse into the emotional wretchedness of a woman’s life in 1987 during the final days of the communist Ceausescu regime in Romania when abortions were illegal. Read more

“If anyone wants a whupping from me, they got to wait until after sundown,” says Ukraine-born welterweight boxer Dmitriy Salita, whose Orthodox Jewish beliefs are as central to his character as his will to win. /read more>>

Scene for scene, Orthodox is somewhat uneven — for many of the intriguing set pieces (who knew there was so much girlish drama involved in fight weigh-ins?) there are alternately dull sequences Read more>>