Give Women a Chance

I have long been critical of your lack of female movie reviewers. (Call it what you like, the end result is the same: no women’s voices in your reviews.) But a line in John Anderson’s review of “Now and Then” was unconscionable (“Female Bonding in a Fragmented ‘Now,’ ” Calendar, Oct. 20). He writes that female bonding is all over the screen this year and is “uniformly dreadful to watch. . . .”

Hello, editors! It’s no surprise to me that a man isn’t that interested in female bonding. For me, I found the mega-hit “A River Runs Through It” and all its male bonding to be a pedestrian bore. But I wouldn’t expect the Los Angeles Times to pay me for that opinion and to publish it as well.

Please, until your disdain of female reviewers changes, do us all a favor and eschew reviewing any movies that are by, for or about women. Then, we can be reminded to turn to other publications that employ female reviewers.

KATHY A. PRICE

Santa Barbara