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She Said

The 100 Most Anticipated Movies of 2022

She Said

2022

Maria Schrader

Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan, Patricia Clarkson, André Braugher ...

6.6

2,713

Drama In 2017 two New York Times reporters, Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.

	Media	Author	Review
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"One of the year’s best films (...) The movie (...) lands in a select list of journalism movies, where “Spotlight,” “All the President’s Men” and too few others reside. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"An absorbing story (...) It has earned its place in the pantheon of newspaper movies (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Adrian Horton The Guardian	"A stirring drama (...) it offers sensitive, resonant recent history (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"Artful and incendiary (...) It’s immersive and skilled storytelling that telegraphs — as ever — both information and emotion"
		Lovia Gyarkye The Hollywood Reporter	"The film is sensible, dutiful and, thanks to key performances, more engaging than the average newsroom procedural"
		Jake Kring-Schreifels The Film Stage	"An understated, polished procedural that chronicles the way two reporters exposed Harvey Weinstein's decades of sexual abuse and assault (...) The subdued thrills of this movie come in small doses"
		Hoai-Tran Bui SlashFilm	"As a journalism movie, it just feels rote. As a biographical drama, it feels too early. And as a Me Too movie, it feels too quiet"
		Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle	"It isn’t exciting, because such movies never are. Rather, it is consistently, calmly and compellingly interesting, not the story of a crime but about the process of revealing it. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Following the template of 'All the President’s Men' and 'Spotlight', 'She Said' is a tense, fraught, and absorbing movie, one that sticks intriguingly close to the nuts and bolts of what reporters do"
		Kevin Maher The Times	"Powerful drama, artfully told (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Robbie Collin Telegraph	"One of those films that mistakes loud-and-clear moral positioning for satisfying drama (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Ella Kemp Empire	"Sharp performances, sensitive direction, and one irrefutable truth: these women won (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Richard Lawson Vanity Fair	"The film may not be an exactingly precise re-creation of journalistic practice, but it confidently embodies the spirit of what these women did"
		Tomris Laffly The Playlist	"It's powerful stuff, made all the more haunting by the fact that history is very much the present"
		Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"It’s a bore. (...) The filmmakers, it would seem, decided that their subject matter was too worthy and important to make legitimately thrilling (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"
		Anna Smith Time Out	"Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan are terrific (...) It's not just an entertaining thriller, but an important historical record (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"It is a solid, conventional film, skillfully made. Mulligan and Kazan are excellent as always (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Fran Hoepfner The Wrap	"It’s not a particularly artful film (...) but it’s tough not to get increasingly invested in Kantor and Twohey’s work"
		Scout Tafoya rogerebert.com	"I think everyone who came forward to tell their stories should be rewarded with better work than this"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"At 135 minutes, Schrader has been given time and she uses it judiciously"
		Nate Richard Collider	"Maria Schrader's direction and Rebecca Lenkiewicz's writing hit every important beat just right, leaving us with an impactful film that feels genuine and never fake"
		Wendy Ide The Guardian	"Taut, sobering drama of the Harvey Weinstein investigation (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Siddhant Adlakha IGN	"An artless retelling of major events, 'She Said' chronicles the investigation into Harvey Weinstein in mechanical fashion, flattening its tale of victimhood, paranoia, and perseverance into a journalism movie checklist"
		Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle	"The performances are rock-solid. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan capably carry the film and gleam when they get to do more than just carry the plot forward (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		James Mottram South China Morning Post	"The film is both tense and ultimately moving (...) Maria Schrader has done a fine job (...) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Keith Watson Slant	"[It] is more concerned with eliciting the audience’s admiration than its understanding, its compassion, or even simply its interest (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 5)"
		Valerie Complex Deadline	"At the heart of the film is Zoe Kazan, who pulls through to deliver a believable emotional charged performance"
		Jesse Hassenger Paste Magazine	"Schrader pushes the somber score and just-the-facts cinematography as close to pure explication as possible. There is visual storytelling, but little in the way of mood or evocation"
		Leigh Monson AV Club	"[It] never really finds much of a purpose to its dramatization of Kantor and Twohey’s investigation. There seems to be little to be said"

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