Addison Rae
This event is the Women in Film Awards, and Addison Rae is a woman who has been in a film, so: count it. The top is quite nifty and looks great on her, but her skirt was tied to a horse and dragged through a muddy paddock for two days to really prepare it for this event. Energy well spent. You can practically SEE the manure fumes.
Olivia Wilde in Saint Laurent
This is emphatically fine. The bracelets are good. Actually, I do think she looks quite nice, even if it's not extremely interesting, and there's probably something very enticing for her right now about not looking Extremely Interesting.
Lake Bell
This is entertainingly similar. I might like Lake's better, overall?
Sheryl Lee Ralph
This is well tailored to her. I'm STILL waiting for her to have, like, a Law Roach moment. It doesn't have to be via Law Roach, but don't you feel like there is a BIG BIG DRESS in her future? This would not be the event for it, though. Come on, Critics' Choice Awards!!!
Lashana Lynch in Fendi
She and Karla have been an underwhelming partnership lately. This is so shlumpy and crinkled.
Lisa Ann Walter, Quinta Brunson
Super all around. Quinta's dress has a little bit of material -- just a bit -- cascading from the waist, and it looked nice but I didn't have a photo that really showed it off, so just trust me I guess.
Lili Reinhart in Max Mara
I actually REALLY like this. She looks like the break-room whiteboard at a company where the employees are happy and nice. (Does this company exist???) (Yes! It's GFY HQ, except for how we don't have offices or a whiteboard, and if we did it would just say things like HEATHER LEAVE FOR YOUR MAMMOGRAM IN 45 MINUTES.)
Women In Honors, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 27 Oct 2022
Surprise! It's a back scarf!
Kathryn Newton
I am happy she livened this up with lipstick and a necklace, but I am not sure white is her color overall. It is not mine, either, so I feel her on this.
The back is laced like a shoe.
Da'Vine Joy Randolph
Love it, and I am into HER vampy lip, too.
Maria Bakalova
Her last few outfits have been wonky, so I like that she went with something simple and efficient here. She looks great.
Jessica Knoll
"What??! Pants? But I bought these great shoes!! Hang on, let me just... cut them." (Also, is it just me, or is the bralette top not supposed to be showing? Or maybe it slid too low? The jacket might be one size too big... I think all the elements were here and just went a little haywire on her. Her head, however, is fantastic.
Jackie Tohn
I'm with her until the shoes, which feel a little musty. They take this to a lanai place for me.
Thuso Mbedu
Lovely!
Aimee Carrero
Similarly lovely, but slightly taller in the bodice!
And hers is strapped on with ... some complex elastic there. I don't have a shot of Thuso's to compare it with, but I hope anyone relying on that much snug elastic is not being chafed.
Jane Fonda
Look who I found! Jane didn't walk the carpet but she did pop by inside to give Michaela Coel an award, although that did not go according to plan...
Women In Film Honors, Show, Los Angeles, California, USA - 27 Oct 2022
... because Michaela didn't make it, so Lake Bell accepted it for her. (Is this random? It feels random. Jane's face says it's random.)
Viola Davis
I say this with all the love and respect in the world: I think it's cockamamie that Viola, a participant AND presenter to her Woman King director Gina Prince-Blythewood, didn't walk the red carpet to get maximum promotion for a) the film, b) her friend, c) this organization. That said: THIS SUIT. She looks great.
Thuso Mbedu with Viola Davis
And think of how we could have seen this whole outfit on the red carpet! GIVE SUIT ITS DUE!