Today, there’s rarely a discussion of women in cinema without some mention of the Bechdel Test. The quick thought experiment highlights gender disparities in film by asking whether movie contains two ...

We all talk about the Bechdel Test all the time, because it’s so simple: Does a story have two women who talk to each other, about something other than a man? But almost every time it comes up, we all ...

The announcement that four Swedish movie theaters would be rating films according to the Bechdel Test, which Criticwire first reported on last week, has sparked a flurry of conversation about its ...

A new study about the representation of women in Hollywood thoroughly confirms what you have probably long ago come to perceive: most films do not come anywhere close to passing the Bechdel Test. The ...

It’s a learning moment for everybody. Sofia Coppola, Cannes award-winning director of “The Beguiled,” didn’t know what the Bechdel Test was. In an interview with GQ, Coppola expresses her confusion ...

On Monday, in a now-deleted Tweet, writer Hanna Rosin criticized Hulu’s popular new film “Fire Island” for its so-called failure of the Bechdel test. Rosin wrote that the movie “gets an F- on the ...

For years, we've operated under the assumption that passing a rudimentary test is all a film needs to do to be feminist-friendly. The famed Bechdel Test has sent some of our favorite films into shame ...

Another day, another year end list. This time around, I want to draw up a report card (admittedly a bit unscientific) on what the biggest films of 2016 say about women and the ways in which they are ...

Blink and you might miss them. The first and only living woman to speak in “The Revenant” appears an hour and a half in. The one scene shared only between women in “Spotlight” comes after the climax, ...

Film critic Kyle Smith is facing fierce criticism online for railing against the Bechdel Test — a benchmark of whether a movie portrays women as fully formed characters — and for claiming that men ...