Quote:
"You don't want [You Can't Beat a Woman] to stop—and this is a film about violence against women! The simple point is that [Gail] Singer knows how to make a film. She is not afraid of entertaining, and in fact she knows very well that her audiences deserve credit for already knowing how bad it is out there—in Chile, in Japan and in Manitoba. The subject needs attention, and since it is not disappearing as a social evil, Singer advances our understanding of violence by inspecting its representation, even if it is sometimes painful to do so. Typically, Singer shoots herself a number of times in the rumpled hotel beds of morning, the sheets pulled over her head in grumpy denial. We should all be grateful that she managed to face the cheery light of another day. Not surprisingly, You Can't Beat a Woman! uses its time in the company of some remarkable women not only to tell how they have survived but how they are smiling all the way into their futures."
-- Noreen Golfman

Source:
Golfman, Noreen. "You Can't Beat a Woman." Review of You Can't Beat a Woman!. Canadian Forum, September 1997. (p. 28)