Films by male directors ruled the box office this summer. The boys-only cadre of helmers included Gareth Edwards (“Jurassic World: Rebirth”), James Gunn (“ Superman “), Joseph Kosinski (“ F1 “), and Len Wiseman (“Ballerina”). While women directed a few smaller budget films, such as “Freakier Friday” (Nisha Ganatra) and “ Materialists ” (Celine Song), once again Hollywood awarded the highest-profile directing gigs with the largest budgets, and thus the largest grosses generally speaking, to men.

Writing for The New Yorker about the dearth of big budget films with women directors back in 2015, film critic Richard Roeper predicted, “Today’s leading independent visionaries are tomorrow’s acknowledged auteurs.” He went on to suggest that indie directors such as Miranda July, Sophia Ta

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