Erin Carlson

No Crying in Baseball is a rollicking, revelatory deep dive into a one-of-a-kind film. Before A League of Their Own, few American girls could imagine themselves playing professional ball (and doing it better than the boys). But Penny Marshall's genre outlier became an instant classic and a significant aha moment for countless young women who saw that throwing like a...

Meryl Streep is the most celebrated actress of our time. She's a chameleon who disappears fully into each character she plays. She never tackles the same role twice. Instead, she leverages her rarified platform to channel a range of tough, complicated women—Margaret Thatcher, Karen Silkwood, the Anna Wintour avatar Miranda Priestly—rather than limit herself to marginal roles for which other...