Steven Spielberg is the most famous filmmaker in the world, so it was only a matter of time before his lengthy filmography was scrutinized by 21st century standards. The Bechdel test was going to find ...

You know what passes the Bechdel Test? A group conversation with various actresses about the Bechdel Test. Jennifer Lawrence ...

On Monday, in a now-deleted Tweet, writer Hanna Rosin criticized Hulu’s popular new film “Fire Island” for its so-called failure of the Bechdel test. Rosin wrote that the movie “gets an F- on the ...

The Bechdel Test, a gauge for measuring how women characters are represented in films, has become shorthand for evaluating sexism in cinema and other popular media, and its results offer some ...

Today, there’s rarely a discussion of women in cinema without some mention of the Bechdel Test. The quick thought experiment highlights gender disparities in film by asking whether movie contains two ...

The Bechdel Test is a great hammer, but not every movie is a nail The Bechdel Test is a great tool, but one tool alone isn’t capable of getting the entire job done. Popular movies still don’t treat ...

Another day, another year end list. This time around, I want to draw up a report card (admittedly a bit unscientific) on what the biggest films of 2016 say about women and the ways in which they are ...

Fans of feminist film, or any lovers of media with strong female characters, might have a hard time justifying why they love certain movies. But the Mako Mori test, named after a Pacific Rim character ...

Blink and you might miss them. The first and only living woman to speak in “The Revenant” appears an hour and a half in. The one scene shared only between women in “Spotlight” comes after the climax, ...