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1. www.nytimes.com › 2019/09/26 › magazineI Run War Games. Too Often, I Am the Only Woman in the Room.

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   I don’t want to be the only woman in the room running a war game. I’ve seen subtle but important differences emerge from games led by women or involving women in the design process.

   • ‘The Woman King’ Review: Viola Davis Slays - The New York Times

     Led by the battle-scarred General Nanisca (Viola Davis), the...

2. www.nytimes.com › 2022/09/15 › movies‘The Woman King’ Review: Viola Davis Slays - The New York Times

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   Sep 15, 2022 · Led by the battle-scarred General Nanisca (Viola Davis), the women soldiers, their bodies oiled to a high gleam, emerge like hallucinations that Prince-Bythewood makes palpably real.

   • Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood

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3. www.nytimes.com › reviews › moviesMovie Reviews - The New York Times

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   2 days ago · NYT Critic’s Pick. PG-13. Thriller. Directed by Clint Eastwood. In his latest (and perhaps last) movie as a director, Eastwood casts a skeptical eye at the criminal justice system in a mystery...

4. www.cinemablend.com › movies › hollywood-highlighted32 Times Hollywood Highlighted Women In The Military

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   Jul 8, 2024 · Women have contributed to militaries for most of human history but they are still too often overlooked. Here are 32 times Hollywood took the time to celebrate women in uniform.

5. www.newyorker.com › culture › cultural-commentSisterhood and Slavery in “The Woman King” - The New Yorker

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   Sep 16, 2022 · Dahomey, a scrappy kingdom menaced by the slave trade, has dispatched its bravest soldiers to rescue a group of captive subjects, who are at risk of being sold to the rival Oyo Empire.

6. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › the-woman-king-movieThe Woman King movie review & film summary (2022) - Roger Ebert

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   Sep 16, 2022 · You might wonder how Prince-Bythewood can shape a tale centering the Agojie warriors—an all-woman group of soldiers sworn to honor and sisterhood—hailing from the West African kingdom of Dahomey, when one considers their hand in perpetuating the transatlantic slave trade.

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   Do women have a role in war?

   • Of course, women have long played their part in that aspect of war. Testament of Youth is about a woman, played by Alicia Vikander, who follows three men she is close with to war during the First World War. She serves as a nurse and feels the full tragedy that was The Great War. Of course, throughout history, women have often been sidelined in war.

   32 Times Hollywood Highlighted Women In The Military

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   Does Emily Blunt play a soldier?

   • Emily Blunt not only plays a soldier, but she plays the most competent soldier in the movie, leading her male counterpart (Tom Cruise) on and off the battlefield. It's been widely praised for the reversal of traditional roles in war movies and as one of the best sci-fi movies of all time.

   32 Times Hollywood Highlighted Women In The Military

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   What role does Madeline Stowe play in the military?

   • One of the more common roles, it seems, for women in the military in the movies is that of  Military Police. The General's Daughter is one such example, with Madeline Stowe playing the partner of John Travolta's character, and in many ways, unsurprisingly, the voice of reason in the film.

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   Are women filmmakers taking up space?

   • The ascendancy of women filmmakers over the past decade is one of the great chapters in movie history, and as women have fought their way back into the field, they have also taken up space — on screens and in minds — long denied them. Their canvases are again as expansive as their desires.

   ‘The Woman King’ Review: Viola Davis Slays - The New York Times

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8. time.com › 6234971 › she-said-review'She Said' Is a Satisfying Journalism Movie: Review | TIME

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   Nov 18, 2022 · The movie opens with a striking, wordless scene: It’s Ireland in 1992, and a young woman who’s out walking by the shore stumbles onto a location shoot, some sort of period piece involving 18th...