Geena Davis was watching preschool TV shows and children’s videos with her two-year-old daughter when she began to wonder: where were the girls? Read more

AWFJ highlights films made by and about women: Read more

Charlie Bartlett couldn’t have come along at a better time. The often postponed release of this infectious little charmer proves the old saying “things happen for a reason”. Read more

Mix the rebellion of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” with a bit of “Igby Goes Down” and a touch of “Rushmore” and you come up with this cautionary coming-of-age tale about teens’ recreational use of prescription medications and the necessity of parental involvement. Read more

“Be Kind Rewind,” the new movie starring Mos Def, Danny Glover and Jack Black, revels in its silliness. Surely, no other flick has gathered in one production, such varied film classics as “Ghost Busters,” “Rush Hour” and “Driving Miss Daisy.” Read more>>

French writer-director Michel Gondry (”Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”) takes audiences on a sweetly nostalgic and wildly imaginative flight of fancy with his new film, “Be Kind Rewind.” Read more>>

Vantage Point

This clumsy thriller makes you appreciate Rashomon all the more. Read more

This terrorism thriller has a terrific premise but fizzles into a forgettable formula. Read more

You gotta get a gimmick. But having one’s not enough. Once you’ve got a gimmick, you’ve gotta know what to do with it. And while “Vantage Point” definitely has its gimmick, it doesn’t always know how to capitalize on it. Read more>>

Winner of the Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award, this is a true W.W.II drama that poses a provocative moral dilemma about Jewish collaboration with the Nazis. Read more