Despite strong performances from a gender blind cast, Scott Wentworth's production is a confusing and misguided adaptation. …
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Review: Grace and violence mingle in The Beguiled
In Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, violence erupts in Miss Martha’s seminary, poorly-defended citadel of virtue, but the women never lose their poise. …
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Review: The Bad Batch is frustratingly undercooked
Ana Lily Amirpour’s wasteland survival story, The Bad Batch raises a lot of issues while never quite getting to its point. The Bad Batch, writer-director Ana …
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Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror
Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn’t about the horror of female sexuality so much as the twisted results …
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Review: Little Sister invites us into the family
Zach Clark’s Little Sister offers a new twist on the Quirky Family Dramedy in which the quirks aren’t mere personality tics, but signs of genuine trauma. …
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TIFF16 Review: Killed into art? Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype
Kioyshi Kurosawa’s latest eerie offering, Daguerrotype, is a well-crafted aesthetic effort with little actual resonance screening in the TIFF Platform …
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TIFF 16 Review: I Am Not Madame Bovary
Feng Xiaogang experiments with new aspect ratios in I Am Not Madame Bovary, his caustically funny satire of Chinese bureaucracy. Starring Fan Bingbing, the film …
Fantasy and identity collide in Zoom
You haven’t seen everything until you’ve seen a tiny lady stuffing dime bags into a RealDoll. This is Zoom, Pedro Morelli’s absurdist narrative ouroboros.To …
Therapy for a Vampire: few laughs, little therapy
Aspiring to follow the hilarious What We Do in the Shadows, David Rühm’s Therapy for a Vampire bills itself as a vampire farce. Unfortunately, it isn’t funny. …
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Review: April and the Extraordinary World is a wonder
April and the Extraordinary World is an immersive science fiction narrative, but it’s also a thoughtful reflection on our own world.To access this post, you …
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