Ren Jender

Ren Jender INTO Jan 10, 2023 A If someone had told me one of my favorite films from Sundance would be about a thrash metal band in Lebanon, I wouldn’t have believed them. But Rita Baghdadi’s Sirens—executive produced in part by Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne—is one of the rare... Go to Full Review Sirens (2022) 98% 88%

Ren Jender INTO Jan 10, 2023 A- Nothing Compares, Kathryn Ferguson’s stunning documentary on the rapid rise and fall from worldwide fame of Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, comes at an auspicious time. We’re living in a moment where women singers who were previously vilified by... Go to Full Review Nothing Compares (2022) 99% 88%

Ren Jender NPR Nov 7, 2019 Har'el... continues the use of surreal imagery that made her documentaries so striking and emotionally resonant. Go to Full Review Honey Boy (2019) 94% 92%

Ren Jender NPR Sep 5, 2019 The film has Ronstadt's full cooperation, including her funny, charming narration throughout. Go to Full Review Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019) 89% 99%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 [Pina] capture, in original and striking ways, the beauty and mystery of [Pina] Bausch's work by bringing us right inside of it. Go to Full Review Pina (2011) 95% 81%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 One of the most moving scenes in the film is close to the end when we see the survivors in a series of long, silent close-ups, as they are now... jowls, grey hair and aging itself becomes a triumph, as it rarely is on American movie screens. Go to Full Review How to Survive a Plague (2012) 98% 83%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Sitting through three hours in a movie theater and focusing on one woman's life (especially a queer woman's) was a relief and something I could use a lot more of. Go to Full Review Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) 88% 82%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Sini Anderson's The Punk Singer is all about music and politics: feminism and women, while focusing on one person, Kathleen Hanna, formerly of the bands Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and current front-woman of The Julie Ruin. Go to Full Review The Punk Singer (2013) 91% 83%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Perhaps the most infuriating thing about Inside Llewyn Davis is how rabidly (and anachronistically) apolitical it is. Go to Full Review Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 92% 74%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 The Great Beauty is about a bored, jaded man but doesn't leave its audience bored or jaded which is itself an achievement. Go to Full Review The Great Beauty (2013) 91% 81%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Philomena is another Oscar-nominated film which features an older woman, and it left me frustrated... Go to Full Review Philomena (2013) 91% 89%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 I went into Nebraska, hopeful but cautious. But in this film [Alexander] Payne seems to be going not sideways, but backwards. Go to Full Review Nebraska (2013) 90% 83%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 The Oscar-nominated documentary 20 Feet From Stardom attempts to right this injustice by focusing on [Merry] Clayton and a number of other backup singers whose voices we know, but whose names we often do not. Go to Full Review 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) 99% 84%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Distributors seem not to realize that an explicit film about male cruising has the potential to attract an audience beyond just gay men: many women, straight and queer, are curious about the type of anonymous, repercussion-free sex shown in the film. Go to Full Review Stranger by the Lake (2013) 94% 65%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 The reason to see the film is not for the interviews with bleary-eyed Famous People Who Saw Mabley Perform Live or even the interviews with comedians whose work she influenced, but to see Mabley's work itself. Go to Full Review Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin' to Tell You (2013) - - 78%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 In spite of politicians and courts still explicitly or implicitly labeling women as liars when they seek justice against powerful men, we need to see at least one happy ending to give the rest of us the fortitude to continue fighting. Go to Full Review Anita (2013) 82% 66%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Many of the contrivances seem like placeholders in the script, meant to be replaced with better thought out action later on, but the movie still contains some truths that don't make their way into films directed and written by men. Go to Full Review In a World ... (2013) 92% 71%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Short Term 12 gets right for much of the film, what so many other films about human services get wrong. Go to Full Review Short Term 12 (2013) 98% 92%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 In the same way that disabled and older people shouldn't be called "inspiring" just for living their lives... the film shows us that the effects of aging for [Elaine] Stritch aren't tragic but just inconveniences and obstacles for her to work around. Go to Full Review Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013) 98% 79%

Ren Jender Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 [Leigh] Brackett's script and particularly [Elliott] Gould's performance are like a mashup of the best parts of 1930s and 40s screwball comedies and detective movies from the same era with 70s realism thrown in. Go to Full Review The Long Goodbye (1973) 93% 87%