Prairie Miller

We came together in 2004 to form the first women critics organization in the United States, in the belief that women's perspectives and voices in film criticism need to be recognized fully.

Such is the nature of the youthful spiritual odyssey, Hadewijch, alternately enchanting and teasing audiences with its frequently mute, episodic, internalized emotional fragments flowing forth. In other words, no mere couch potato entertainment expe

Movies this year were if nothing else, colorful. From black swans to blue valentines and Red's Bruce Willis into rowdy elder espionage too.

Even Howie's bid to help Becca free herself from chronic despair by convincing her to attend group counseling sessions with other grieving parents, backfires when she verbally attacks participants grasping at closure through religion.

Think James Bond as a woman instead, and the negative critic backlash by the mostly male profession, will come pouring in. Not unlike, say, the mere thought of a female president in this country.