Female Film Critics 24/375
The latest modern-day fable from Danny Boyle and Richard Curtis, “Yesterday” boasts a life-affirming uplift that’s almost as big as the Beatles. That’ film owes much of its feel-good power to its loving and liberal coverage of the Fab Four’s legendary catalog.
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The Western genre has experienced a modern resurgence over the past few years with narratives that pull focus away from the genre’s hypermasculine origins and toward stories that are more individualistic, more character-driven. in Little Woods, Nia DaCosta, Tessa Thompson, and Lily James have created something tense, timely and empathetic, expanding the Western genre and adding another slice of American life to it.
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Little Woods could have fallen prey to stereotype, but written and directed by Nia DaCosta, the film features a compelling story and fine and thoroughly convincing performances by Tessa Thompson and Lily James as sisters who need each other to overcome women’s hardships.
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