Mark Rylance – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

BONES AND ALL – Review by T. J. Callahan

November 21, 2022November 27, 2022 T. J. Callahan luca guadagnino, Mark Rylance, taylor russell, timothee chalamet

Bones and All, based on a YA novel of the same name, stars Timothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell as the wayward young couple searching for who they are and who’s going to be their next meal. Character actor extraordinaire, Mark Rylance is Sully, a seasoned people-eater who’s
equal parts mentor and maniac. Director Luca Guadagnino mixes the bloody horror he orchestrated in Suspiria with the peachy romance from Call Me By Your Name as we follow the pair across the Midwest in stolen vehicles with stolen dreams.

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BONES AND ALL – Review by Diane Carson

November 21, 2022November 27, 2022 Diane Carson Bones and All, chloe sevigny, luca guadagnino, Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbarg, taylor russell, tellurde fim festival, timothee chalamet

Bones and All uses cannibalism to argue for compassion. Of the many truly terrific fifteen films I saw at the Telluride Film Festival this past year, Bones and All is the only film I can not wholeheartedly recommend. For it presents, with some reserve, cannibals, those who in fact are the living eating the living. And director Luca Guadagnino introduces it without holding back in an early scene.

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PHANTOM OF THE OPEN – Review by Martha K Baker

May 31, 2022June 4, 2022 Martha K. Baker British Open Golf Championship, craig roberts, Mark Rylance, Maurice Flitcroft, sally hawkins, Simon Farnaby, The Phantom of the Open

Two words: Mark Rylance. Two more words: Sally Hawkins. They co-star in The Phantom of the Open, based on the real life story of the Maurice Flitcroft, a golf legend for getting the British Open’s lowest score ever. In lesser hands the film would have been a wisp of tissue paper, but with Rylance and Hawkins, the film utterly delights as it tells of a sweetly silly moment in sports.

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THE OUTFIT – Review by Martha K Baker

March 23, 2022March 24, 2022 Martha K. Baker Graham Moore, Johnathan McClain, Mark Rylance, The Outfit

Few movies qualify as perfect, but The Outfit comes as close to pure perfection as Ivory soap. Everything — from casting to writing to lighting to plotting — defines this film as worthy. Everything is doubly good, starting with the double entendre of the title. A movie about a tailor called The Outfit would seem to refer to a bespoke suit, but the title also refers to an organization, a mafia.

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DON’T LOOK UP – Review by Lauren Anderson

December 31, 2021January 1, 2022 Lauren Anderson (Archived Contributor) adam mckay, cate blanchett, Don't Look Up, jennifer lawrence, jonah hill, leonardo di caprio, Mark Rylance, meryl streep, tyler perry

Don’t Look Up is a whirlwind of a movie. The Adam McKay film follows Kate Dibiasky and Dr. Mindy, two astronomers, who find themselves at the center a media frenzy while they’re attempting to warn mankind of a massive comet that’s hurtling towards Earth. While the narrative of this movie is intended to be humorous, it’s also eerily reflective of the way humanity could react if something like this were actually to happen.

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DON’T LOOK UP – Review by Susan Granger

December 16, 2021December 19, 2021 Susan Granger adam mckay, cate blanchett, Don't Look Up, jennifer lawrence, jonah hill, leonardo di caprio, Mark Rylance, meryl streep, tyler perry

Such curious timing! The same week that NASA launched DART (Double Astroid Redirection Test), a $330 million spacecraft to ‘nudge’ the asteroid Dimorphos off -course, this star-studded cautionary satire hit the big screens.

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DON’T LOOK UP – Review by Martha K Baker

December 9, 2021December 12, 2021 Martha K. Baker adam mckay, cate blanchett, Don't Look Up, jennifer lawrence, jonah hill, leonardo di caprio, Mark Rylance, meryl streep, tyler perry

The title is ironic. The idea is to look up. Up there, a comet is coming this way, and it will destroy the Earth and its denizens. That’s the prediction of two astronomers, Dr. Randall Mindy and his colleague, Kate Dibiasky, still earning her doctorate (an academic point made clear in every introduction). They are Spartans at Michigan State University. Read: low-level. Read: Midwest. Which is why the President herself decrees: “Let’s get some Ivy Leaguers in here.”

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THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 – Review by Martha K Baker

October 2, 2020October 4, 2020 Martha K. Baker 0 Comments aaron sorkin, Democratic National Convention, Eddie Redmayne, Frank Langella, Mark Rylance, Michael Keaton, netflix, The Trial of the Chicago 7, truth-based

Those who did not live through the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968 or follow coverage of the trial of seven men, the excellent film, The Trial of the Chicago Seven will read as incredible. Just unbelievable. For starters, men accused of being in a conspiracy had never met before that August. For another, a judge appeared to be unqualified at least, viciously loony-tunes at most.

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WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS – Review by Susan Granger

August 11, 2020August 14, 2020 Susan Granger 0 Comments Ciro Guerra, Gana Bayarsaikhan, J.M. Coetzee, johnny depp, Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson, waiting for the barbarians

Pulitzer Prize-winning South African author J.M. Coetzee has adapted his 1980 novel – a cautionary tale about the sins of colonialism – into a mediocre movie. Making his English language debut, Colombian director Ciro Guerra and cinematographer Chris Menges filmed in Morocco and Italy, lending an evocative cinematic authenticity to the bleakly generic drama about brutality by authorities.

General Archives Movie of the Week Reviews Women on Film

AWFJ Movie of the Week, June 27 – July 3: THE BFG

June 27, 2016July 4, 2016 Nikki Baughan 0 Comments anne brodie, leba hertz, Mark Rylance, Melissa Mathison, rebecca hall, Ruby Barnhill, Sandra Kriaisirideja, Steven Spielberg, The BFG

Opening June 17, AWFJ’s Movie of the Week is The BFG, Steven Spielberg’s long-awaited adaptation of Roald Dahl’s beloved childhood classic about the friendship between a small girl named Sophie and a kindly giant. Read on…