What Woman of the Hour does really well is show how microaggressions contribute to a society that undermines women as we are murdered and the perpetrator goes free. It also does a pretty great job of justifying why women may humor men in dangerous situations, while showing that it's best to come forward and try to fight the system for justice when its possible (and covertly help support women in similar positions when its not).
The scenes with the killer…
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This is a hard movie to rate. It's not well made, but it almost succeeds in spite of itself due to the fact that it's about rich kids, made by a rich kid: Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. This gives him access to his rich friends that most documentarians would kill for.
So although its sometimes embarrassingly amateurish (particularly the background music choices), Johnson perhaps doesn't know how funny some of these interviews are. If we're judging…
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Just One of the Guys has held up surprisingly well given the subject matter and the fact that it's 32 years old. The few cringeworthy moments of un-PC terms can be attributed to the teenage guy character's who say them struggling to find the right vocabulary to describe a very unique situation.
The main takeaway from Just One of the Guys is Joyce Hyser's phenomenal performance. (I read a few reviews from male critics who claimed it wasn't a convincing…
