Lindsay Pugh runs down the best of Final Girls Berlin 2021, from Your Monster to Time of Moulting to The Returned.While I wouldn’t exactly call myself a staunch …
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Lindsay Pugh runs down the best of Final Girls Berlin 2021, from Your Monster to Time of Moulting to The Returned.While I wouldn’t exactly call myself a staunch …
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Yukiko Sode’s Aristocrats, which world premiered at the International Film Festival of Rotterdam (IFFR), follows two Tokyo women of different social classes who …
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Ninja Thyberg's LA porn drama, Pleasure, is an authentic, scathing look at an industry with little regard for boundaries or consent. Check out all our Sundance …
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Nikole Beckwith's surrogacy drama, Together Together, starring Patti Harrison and Ed Helms, is sweetly subversive if a little thin. Check out all our Sundance …
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Debbie Lum's documentary Try Harder! follows students at Lowell, a high-achieving SF high school with a predominantly Asian student body. Check out all our …
Amela Baksic’s costumes aid in setting the various moving parts of Shirley, especially its female characters, in rotation around one another. Listen to our …
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