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I Am Woman

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Australia · 2020
1h 56m
Director Unjoo Moon
Starring Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Danielle Macdonald, Evan Peters, Damien Strouthos
Genre Drama, Music

I Am Woman chronicles the life of Australian singer Helen Reddy, best known for her female empowerment anthem of the same name. When she arrives in New York City to launch her career in the 1960s, she has to overcome misogyny and mistreatment from the music industry.

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CNN by Brian Lowry

Helen Reddy might seem so 1970s, but her song "I Am Woman" became a feminist anthem of its time, and serves as the title and centerpiece of a reasonably good movie biography, if one that -- perhaps due to the nature of her life -- feels a little like the Hallmark Channel version of "Bohemian Rhapsody."

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Variety by Dennis Harvey

The film doesn’t contextualize Reddy within the musical personalities of her era (beyond saying she sure wasn’t cock-rockers Deep Purple, another Wald client), so newbies may well come away with no idea why she had a unique niche in the ’70s entertainment landscape.

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The Guardian by Luke Buckmaster

It is a lean and likeable, if slight and a little trite, celebration of the legendary Australian-American singer, feminist and anthem-creator Helen Reddy, shot with a rich neo-noirish texture by Oscar-winning cinematographer Dion Beebe.

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Movie Nation by Roger Moore

It’s not a great film, with a story that has too much “Lifetime Original Movie” slack and soap operatic touches for its own good. But as Jerry Wald says, “It’s all about timing.”

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New York Post by Sara Stewart

I’d have been curious to see more about Reddy’s interactions with the women’s movement, but the film mostly has room for this one woman. Thanks to Cobham-Hervey’s performance, it’s an engaging, if fairly familiar, story.

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