Shatara Michelle Ford’s Test Pattern explores power dynamics, in the lead up to and aftermath of a sexual assault, and how a couple copes. Test Pattern is …
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Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Highlights from the Final Girls Berlin Film Festival 2021
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 …
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IFFR Review: Aristocrats compares two women’s freedom in class-conscious Tokyo
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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The best films of IFFR 2021
We gathered four of our writers to each choose one IFFR 2021 film that stuck with them, and explain why it was a highlight. After an exhausting Sundance …
Sundance Review: CODA is a crowdpleaser with nuanced ideas about disability
Siân Heder’s crowd-pleaser, CODA, is a film that, in any other year, would have the Eccles Theatre on its feet with rapturous applause. Check out all our …
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Sundance Review: Navigating consent in Ninja Thyberg’s Pleasure
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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