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For women, aging is like a horror film. Today, we report from the movies.
By Freya Sanders
09.28.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Summer is over and, if you care about culture, thank God. We called it early: It was a season of flops. But has fall finally brought America something worth watching? We dispatched some intrepid Free Pressers to find out—and today, we’re bringing you their verdicts on what’s showing, right now, at a theater near you.

First up, our resident culture vultur…

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Freya Sanders
Freya Sanders is a senior editor at The Free Press. She runs our culture section, working with a lot of your favorite columnists, including Suzy Weiss, Larissa Phillips, Caitlin Flanagan, Kat Rosenfield, and River Page. She's the editor of both The Weekend Press and our weekly profile column Two Drinks, as well as our beloved advice column, Tough Love with Abigail Shrier. She also edits personal stories—from 'What I Went Through to Meet My Daughter' to 'My Mom Was Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Then She Got Better'—and investigations, from 'A Wife's Revenge From Beyond the Grave' to 'When Freebirth Ends In Death'.
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