Sheila O'Malley

1 month ago | rogerebert.com | Nell Minow |Chaz Ebert |Sheila O'Malley |Peyton Robinson

During Women Writers Week, we publish reviews and articles by female critics and journalists, but we're committed to gender equality in the industry throughout the year. As a companion to the great articles launching this week, we wanted to highlight some excellent work from past editions of WWW as well as outside of the special event. Here is just a sampling of the hundreds of great pieces we could have chosen.

Dec 2, 2024 | washingreview.com | Steve Larkin |Adam Roberts |Sonny Bunch |Sheila O'Malley

Pay no attention to that Managing Editor of the Washington Review of Books behind the curtain!In Lit Hub, an excerpt from Tim Robey’s book about Hollywood flops (Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops, November) about Babe: Pig in the City (1998):“That’ll do, pig” from Farmer Hoggett was the first film’s motto, but when it’s trotted out at the end here, with Babe safely back at the farm, it plainly doesn’t work.

Nov 27, 2024 | libertiesjournal.com | Sheila O'Malley

In The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde wrote, “One should never make one’s debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one’s old age.” Lucky rare Edna O’Brien, who died this past July at the age of 93, did both. She exploded onto the world scene in 1960 with her debut novel, The Country Girls, based loosely on her own adolescence in County Clare, a place she described as “enclosed”, claustrophobic with sexual repression, patriarchy, and gossip.

Oct 16, 2024 | metacritic.com | Sheila O'Malley |Bilge Ebiri |David Ehrlich |Lovia Gyarkye

Witnessing is the most effective defense people have against occupation, and the Israeli military, like all thieves, wilts in the face of being watched. The footage is out there, and it’s rarely been assembled into a more concise, powerful, and damning array than it is here. Now it only has to be seen. Read More

Sep 17, 2024 | sheilaomalley.substack.com | Sheila O'Malley

Kate Mulvany as Marion Keisker, Elvis (2022; d. Baz Luhrmann) My new column at LibertiesJournal of Culture and Politics has really filled a void left in me from the shuttering of Film Comment and my biweekly column there. In “Present Tense”, I was given pretty much free rein to follow my passions wherever they went. This is a rarity. Liberties is a quarterly journal, but they recently launched an online site, without a paywall, and managing editor Celeste Marcus reached out.