Female Film Critics 24/375
Early in Jurassic World Rebirth, a brontosaurus lies tangled in light poles near the Brooklyn Bridge while New Yorkers wind past it like just another wreck in the roadway. That’s the problem with this film in a nutshell. The seventh film in this long-running franchise has no sense of wonder anymore about these phenomenal creatures, just a feeling that no one knows what to do with them.
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In Jurassic World: Rebirth, those darn, genetically altered dinosaurs just keep terrorizing the Delgado family, unwittingly having sailed into the hazardous equatorial zone, and the money-hungry Parker Genix team purposefully there to extract genetic blood samples from one aquatic, one aerial, and one terrestrial specimen. The researchers’ purportedly magnanimous, actually money-driven, goal is DNA information needed to formulate a life-saving heart medicine that will save millions of lives while making the Genix company and their representatives enormously wealthy.
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It’s been five years since “Jurassic: World Dominion,” so many of the once-extinct dinosaurs that were let loose around the world have died off, unable to survive in the hostile environment caused by climate change. This seventh Jurassic installment revolves around the perilous quest to extract DNA testers from the aquatic Mosasaurus, herbivorous Titanosaurus, and flying Quetzalcoatus – while cinematographer John Mathieson duly chronicles the various participants’ adventures.
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Companion, written and directed by Drew Hancock, is an of the moment science fiction/horror/survival thriller/slasher/heist film commenting on the entitlement certain men believe they have over women’s mental, physical, and emotional autonomy. Iris the attainable ‘fembot’ – a term used in incel spaces – a woman contemporaneously desired and despised. A vision created in a space where toxicity and technology merge. Companion strikes at the heart, or another major artery, of misogyny employing a genre mash-up that’s rollicking, bloody, and prescient.
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Michelle Dockery plays a London Barrister determined to convict a high-profile rapist in the six-part Netflix series Anatomy of a Scandal.. Arrogant, aristocratic James Whitehouse (Rupert Friend) is a respected Member of Parliament. He is accused of rape by one of his aides, with whom he, admittedly, had an adulterous affair. This provocative courtroom drama/erotic thriller, pivoting around the controversial concept of ‘consent.’
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You can’t get a better deflector for these dark days in the United States than a serio-comic farce set in the now defunct Soviet Union in 1953, as the mammoth country was given an opportunity to emerge from the rigid structure of Stalin’s tyranny. The Death of Stalin (2017) directed by political satirist Armando Ianucci is such film, a comic tour de force about the anarchy hidden within despotism.
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