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. …
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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 …
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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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