A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.
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By fashioning Hysteria as a romantic comedy, director Tanya Wexler and screenwriters Stephen and Jonah Lisa Dyer conspire to minimize the misogynistic catchall diagnosis commonly given to women for centuries. Although the film purports to expose prudish Victorian mores and sexual double standards, by lampooning the disorder's symptoms and treatment, it unintentionally perpetuates the outmoded ideas.Read the rest of the review at About.com.