The Wasp – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

MOVIE OF THE WEEK January 3, 2025: Team #MOTW’s Favorite MOTWs of 2024

December 30, 2024December 30, 2024 Jennifer Merin babes, betsy bozdech, Black Box Diaries, Cate Marquis, Frida, Ghostlight, jennifer merin, La Chimera, leslie combemale, liz whittemore, loren king, mointains, nell minow, Pam Grady, sandie angulo chen, sherin nicole, the Last Showgirl, the teachers's lounge, The Wasp, We Grown Now

Team #MOTW looks back at the films we featured during 2024 and highlights our favorites. There are many things about 2024 that we want to forget, but these femme-helmed/femme centric films that brought inspiration, understanding, compassion, and respite replete with laughter are not among them — and they must not slip into oblivion. Their themes, topics and genres are diverse, and each one of them is a gem. Add them to your must watch list. Share the titles with friends. To find out more about each of the selected films, click on the highlighted titles for links to the full #MOTW coverage that was published on AWFJ.org on the day of their release. Enjoy all of them!

Movie of the Week

MOVIE OF THE WEEK August 30, 2024: THE WASP

August 25, 2024December 26, 2024 Jennifer Merin betsy bozdech, Cate Marquis, Guillem Morales, jennifer merin, leslie combemale, liz whittemore, loren king, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, motw, Naomie Harris, natalie dormer, nell minow, nikki fowler, sandie angulo chen, The Wasp

Two women in very different circumstances in life who share a complicated history reunite in an unexpected way in The Wasp, a taut, tightly paced London-set psychological thriller with gripping performances from stars Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer. As onetime school friends Heather (Harris) and Carla (Dormer), the two women turn in what is essentially a two-hander for director Guillem Morales, expertly negotiating the story’s many twists and turns.

Reviews

THE WASP – Review by Leslie Combemale

August 21, 2024August 24, 2024 Leslie Combemale Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, motw, Naomie Harris, natalie dormer, The Wasp

I love how the press notes for The Wasp call it “a story with a sting in its tail”, because it’s the perfect description of this taut thriller. It offers a wonderful platform for two spectacularly talented actors to perform together, and Naomie Harris and Natalie Dormer have more than enough skill and talent to navigate the sharp shifts required in The Wasp, moment by moment, in the name of storytelling and character development.

Festivals Reviews

THE WASP (Tribeca 2024) – Review by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

June 11, 2024June 11, 2024 Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Guillem Morales, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, Naomie Harris, natalie dormer, The Wasp, Tribeca 2024

The Wasp is a thrillingly twisty chamber piece, and you’d be hard pressed to fight the desire to immediately rewatch it straight after your first viewing, just to see how director Guillem Morales and his collaborators pull it off so convincingly. A confident portrait of how the tiny humiliations of childhood can fester, The Wasp is a delicious, dark delight.