Review: The Women (2008)

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The gimmick of The Women is that no men appear anywhere in it -- not as background extras, not as voices on the phone, nowhere. It's all women, all the time. Which might sound empowering and feminist, except that the women are all shallow, vain, and petty, and their primary topic of ... [link]

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Published 9/14/2008 by Franck Tabouring at The Screening Log
... • Eric D. Snider at Cinematical: "It's all women, all the time. Which might sound empowering and feminist, except that the women are all shallow, vain, and petty, and their primary topic of conversation is, you guessed it, men." ...

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