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Sheila O'Malley

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Looking Back: Highlighting Some Great Pieces by Our Female Critics

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By Nell Minow, Chaz Ebert, Sheila O'Malley, Peyton Robinson
| RogerEbert.com
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.
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WRB-Dec. 2024 Film Supplement

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By Steve Larkin , Adam Roberts, Sonny Bunch, Sheila O'Malley
| washingreview.com
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.
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Edna O'Brien: Documentary of A Writer and A Star

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By Sheila O'Malley
| Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
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.
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