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.

The Best Tom Cruise Performances Ranked

As you all may very well know at this point, The Mummy premiered this past Friday and the reactions have been lukewarm at best to downright furious regarding it’s handling of female characters. It’s a rare sore spot in Tom Cruises otherwise…

Finding Her Voice Episode 13: Blockbusters

Hello and welcome to TYF’s newest podcast series, Finding Her Voice. Joined by editor in chief Gabrielle Bondi and film and television writer AJ Caulfield, we’ve come together to highlight, celebrate and discuss films directed by women. From the very…

Movie Review: Wonder Woman

To be good is not to be boring, a concept that has baffled many a superhero film in the past. And yet, here we are with Patty Jenkins’s directed Wonder Woman and it’s a film without an inch of cynicism,…

The 100 Review 4×13 “Praimfaya”

Welcome back to our reviews of The CW’s The 100. To read more coverage, click here.  The 100 has always been, and always will be, about one thing: survival. In all of its iterations, the characters on this often times dour…

Things get real in the Season Four Finale of Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Welcome back to my weekly review and recap of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.” To catch up on previous coverage, click here. Despite the common sense scratching at the back of my mind, Brooklyn Nine-Nine has managed (yet again, mind you) to stress this critic…

The Flash 3×23 Review “Finish Line”

Welcome back to the weekly recaps of The Flash. To read previous coverage, go here. Season three of The Flash was not great. It was so not great that I wasn’t keeping up with the show on a week to week basis…

Movie Review: AWOL

It really is quite a shame just how detrimental a bad score can be to the overall effect of a film because aside from a few narrative redundancies, AWOL directed by Deb Shoval and based on her short of the same name…