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Articles by Mary Angela Rowe

About Mary Angela Rowe

Mary Angela Rowe is Editor-at-Large at The Seventh Row. Mary Angela is a lapsed Victorianist currently living in Toronto after stints in Boston and Montreal. Her background in history and literature informs her love of movies like Notorious and Martin — though she’s equally happy watching Heathers or Goon. Her favourite film is Doctor Strangelove.

Seana McKenna, Michelle Giroux, Scott Wentworth, Julius Caesar

Mary Angela Rowe / September 8, 2018

Et Tu, Bathos? Julius Caesar underwhelms at the Stratford Festival

Despite strong performances from a gender blind cast, Scott Wentworth's production is a confusing and misguided adaptation. …

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Beguiled, Sofia Coppola

Mary Angela Rowe / June 30, 2017

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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Mary Angela Rowe / June 22, 2017

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. …

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Raw, Julia Ducournau

Mary Angela Rowe / March 10, 2017

Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror

Mary Angela Rowe's review of Raw. Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn't about the horror of female sexuality so …

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Little Sister, Zach Clark

Mary Angela Rowe / November 18, 2016

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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Daguerrotype, Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Mary Angela Rowe / September 15, 2016

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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