@JTA, Dan: Its virtue is in its simplicity. “A film must contain two named women, who talk to each other, about something other than a man.” That’s it. Easy to describe, easy to check, easy to think about. I really don’t care about a few edge cases here and there, because it’s not talking about individual films; it’s talking about the industry as a trend. It’s not a litmus test for any one film and you’re missing the wood of the trees if that’s how you try to use it.

@Dan’s #6: Yes, but I’m not interested in discussing that here.