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The 100 Best Movies Written by Women Welcome to our guide of the best movies written by women: These are highly Certified Fresh films (nothing on the list falls below 94%) whose screenplay credit goes in part or fully to women. The journey begins nearly a century ago with 1925’s Battleship Potemkin, written by Nina Agadzhanova, inspired by her own participation in Soviet uprisings. Just two years later, Metropolis, cinema’s first sci-fi feature masterpiece, emerged out of Germany, written by Thea von Harbou. The 1930s were one of those peak decades for movies, in no small part thanks to...

Celebrate Women's History Month with the best movies directed by women from the past 20 years: The films that entertained, transported us, and broke new ground.

10. A Lion Returns There’s lots of talking in writer/director Serhat Caradee’s Sydney-set family drama, with almost the entire first act consisting of a single dialogue scene in the back of a car. Jamal (Tyler De Nawi) is the black sheep of his family, to say the least, secretly returning home to Sydney’s western suburbs to visit his dying mother after joining Islamic State in Syria. The radicalised Jamal engages in long and tense debates with his kith and kin, during skilfully constructed dialogue exchanges that toss around big discussions about motivations people have for joining gro...

Advertisement It's too easy to miss brilliant streaming shows, movies and documentaries. Here are the ones to hit play on or skip. Your Honor, Stan ★★★★ Bryan Cranston plays a decent, principled, respected man who decides to do something dodgy to protect his family, but then finds his ever-tightening web of lies and moral compromises turning him into something he never wanted to be. Bryan Cranston as Michael Desiato in Your Honor. Credit:Skip Bolen/Showtime No, you haven't seen this show before. It's called Your Honor (partly because Cranston is playing a judge, rather than a chemist...

The film is a Stan original and the feature directorial debut of Christiaan Van Vuuren, who honed his comedy skills on series such as Soul Mates and Squinters (directing several episodes of each) and is one of the ultra satirically woke Bondi Hipsters (whose amusing new half-hour spin-off on Stan, Dom and Adrian 2020, landed on the weekend). Written by Elliot Vella, Gretel Vella and Timothy Walke, A Sunburnt Christmas is wacky and sweet in a backhanded way, with a plot spearheaded by a costumed rascal bringing excitement to an otherwise uneventful, quintessentially Australian setting. Daisy (...