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Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Hany Abu-Assad directs Huda's Salon, a thriller that posits: “It’s easier to occupy a society that is already repressing itself.”Click here to find all of our …
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Alanis Obomsawin's new short film, Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair, is a powerful presentation preserved on film.Click here to find all of our TIFF 2021 …
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire actress Luàna Bajrami makes a wonderful directorial debut with The Hill Where Lionesses Roar, a coming-of-age tale set in …
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Host director Rob Savage returns with DASHCAM, a new pandemic horror film, featuring a main character as evil as the creatures attacking her.Click here to find …
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In Jenna Cato Bass's horror film, Good Madam, a Black family's domestic servitude to a white family is the stuff of nightmares.Click here to find all of our …
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The Gravedigger's Wife follows a Somali gravedigger's desperate search for funds to finance life-saving surgery for his wife.Read Orla Smith's interview with …
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