A look at the highly disturbing disparity of female directors in tv and film through time . Also Included are lack of female lead roles, or balanced female characters, dis-equity in role models of female children in films and how the media is driven primarily by men with little or no representation of women at the decision making table.... (Full plot summary below)
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A look at the highly disturbing disparity of female directors in tv and film through time . Also Included are lack of female lead roles, or balanced female characters, dis-equity in role models of female children in films and how the media is driven primarily by men with little or no representation of women at the decision making table.
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| Movie NationRoger MooreDonahue’s film goes down the rabbit hole on a few subjects, which cause the film to drift a bit, almost to the point of mission creep. It tends to lean most heavily on the directing ranks, even though actresses are the vast bulk of its eyewitnesses. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Anne T. DonahurUltimately, This Changes Everything is a mainline to the first-hand experience of those who work and exist outside the white male umbrella. And because of that, it’s an exercise in storytelling that evolves quickly into a valuable lesson for anyone who purports to be a feminist, an ally or a film and television lover. You’ll never watch either the same way again. |
| The New York TimesAisha HarrisOnce it finally begins to focus on the mission, however, This Changes Everything not only becomes engrossing but reveals itself as a crucial cri de coeur. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeChances are, if you work in Hollywood, This Changes Everything won’t teach you anything you don’t already know. But that doesn’t mean it’s not helpful to hear it articulately communicated by some of the most respected women in the business. |
| RogerEbert.comChristy LemireThe documentary This Changes Everything synthesizes all that data along with interviews from a truly mind-boggling array of A-listers both in front of and behind the camera to create a damning portrait of Hollywood’s systematic sexism and discrimination. In between, we see clips from both movies and television that illustrate the film’s points in amusing and often striking ways. |
| TheWrapCandice FrederickThis Changes Everything may not actually change anything (especially considering that it, too, is directed by a man), but there’s hope that it will at least galvanize more allies, so that there will be more of them in Hollywood than not. That’s a start. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranPerhaps inevitably because it is dealing with a big issue, This Changes Everything suffers a bit from being all over the map, touching so many bases that, though each is important, they don’t all cohere into a whole. |
| The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThere are some tonal problems here, particularly around the way the film tends to homogenize very disparate views and opinions into one sweet, easily digestible polemical smoothie. |
| User ReviewfcuetoAn eye opening documentary that uncovers how conscious and unconscious bias from the power group has taken over an industry for a very long time. Happy to see the efforts to make a meaningful, positive change in the past years. |
| User ReviewEleanaarghI literally signed up to more sites to review movies just because of this doc. If 80% of reviewers are men that is wildly problematic. This shook me to my core and made me understand huge sections of my childhood experience with media. Send to your bosses, colleagues and teachers. |
