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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Gender and Sexuality
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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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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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Sundance Review: Together Together feels both fresh and familiar
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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FYC: Matt Dillon’s and Lars Eidinger’s complex portraits of men in Proxima
In Proxima, Matt Dillon and Lars Eidinger play the rare male characters who are flawed, privileged, and yet still empathetic. Read more about …
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