Allyson Johnson

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Allyson is a New England based writer, who has been a film critic since 2012. She is a member of the Boston Society of Film Critics, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, and the Online Film Critics Society, along with being a Tomatometer approved critic on Rotten Tomatoes. Her writing can also be found at CambridgeDay.com, ThePlaylist.net, VagueVisages.com, RogerEbert.com, TheMarySue.com and elsewhere.

TYF’s Top Films of 2017 (So far!)

Remember how we spent a good deal of 2016 talking about how goddamn long it felt? Well, 2017 hasn’t fared much better and sometimes it’s a big reality check to realize it’s only JULY. In that time while your blood…

Sense8 and the virtue of hope

Sense8 is and was a beautiful show because it understood that there something we all so desperately wanted to see on our screens: hope. It was a show that, by design, this critic was always going to gravitate towards as a…

Season Review: American Gods is unlike anything else on television

There is quite a lot to wrap your head around when first watching Bryan Fuller’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods. Disinterested in telling a purely linear tale as the Starz series weaves around conventional storytelling structure to instead take introduce…

What we find at The World’s End

The Worlds End was one of those movies that had me in constant facial contortions. One moment I was splitting my face in two with a toothy grin, the next it was agape, my hands covering it in empathetic panic over…

Sofia Coppola’s Films Ranked

Sofia Coppola is one of our brightest and most talented directors, genre-hopping throughout her career with each turn offering something new. She has developed a distinct style over the course of her career, something that is keenly shown off in…

Scarlett Johansson’s Best Roles

Rough Night hit theaters on Friday and while the reviews have been somewhat mixed, there’s been few bad things to say about Scarlett Johansson’s more straight laced performance. It’s a nice reminder of the range the actress has and due to…

Zoe Lister-Jones talks about her first feature film Band Aid

Director Zoe Lister Jones has an enigmatic film on her hands with Band Aid, a comedy-drama hybrid that utilizes music in an inspired way. While the plot on first glance is familiar, studying the arrested development of a couple in…