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Gender and Sexuality

Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.

Alex Heeney / June 4, 2025

InsideOut Reviews: Sandbag Dam, The Nature of Invisible Things

Alex Heeney reviews Rafaela Camelo’s The Nature of Invisible Things and Čejen Černić Čanak’s Sandbag Dam at Toronto’s InsideOut LGBTQ+ Film Festival: two sensitive films about young people that young people should see.

Alex Heeney / May 19, 2025

Film Review: Pauline Loquès’s Nino at Cannes

Alex Heeney reviews Pauline Loquès’s feature debut, Nino, starring Théodore Pellerin, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a twentysomething man’s nervewrecking weekend after he’s diagnosed with c
ancer and before he starts treatment.

Alex Heeney / May 17, 2025

Film Review: Alice Douard’s Love Letters

Alex Heeney reviews Alice Douard’s debut feature Love Letters, which screens in the Critics’ Week sidebar at Cannes. The film tells the story of a queer woman in 2014 whose partner is pregnant with their child, and the paperwork involved with becoming her daughter’s legal parent.

Alex Heeney / March 7, 2025

Film Review: Charles Burnett’s The Annihilation of Fish

Charles Burnett’s delightful 1999 screwball comedy The Annihilation of Fish has been restored in 4K and is screening across North America.

Lena Wilson / July 5, 2024

The Devil’s Bath is a breathtaking masterwork that will ruin your night and possibly your life

Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s harrowing new drama makes their previous chillers, Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge, look like episodes of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.

Lena Wilson / March 30, 2024

Love Lies Bleeding is a slick, cheeky thriller about lesbian codependency

Unlike the harrowingly exquisite Saint Maud, Rose Glass’s second feature film, Love Lies Bleeding, is just as likely to make you giggle as it is to make you gasp.

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