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Gender and Sexuality

Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.

Alex Heeney / February 1, 2024

Film Review: Martha Coolidge’s Not a Pretty Picture

Martha Coolidge excavates her sexual assault in her creative nonfiction film Not a Pretty Picture, recently restored in 4K by Janus Films.

Alex Heeney / January 5, 2024

Film Review: Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers

Writer-director Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers is part ghost story and part romance, and it feels like a warm hug.

Alex Heeney / December 11, 2022

Review: Other People’s Children is Rebecca Zlotowski’s best film

Alex Heeney reviews Rebecca Zlotowski’s new film Other People’s Children, about a woman approaching forty, trying to figure out how to be a parent when she may no longer be able to be a biological one.

Alex Heeney / November 4, 2022

TIFF Review: The Swearing Jar is an existential crisis film with two romances

Lindsay Mackay’s second feature film, The Swearing Jar, is an existential crisis film with two romances.

Alex Heeney / October 12, 2022

Pray for Our Sinners: TIFF Film Review

Sinéad O’Shea’s Pray for Our Sinners is a heart-wrenching and important documentary about the quiet resistance to Catholic rule in Ireland.

Alex Heeney / September 15, 2022

Unruly Film Review: women battle patriarchy and eugenics in 1930s Denmark

Alex Heeney reviews Malou Reymann’s feature film debut, Unruly, which had its world premiere at TIFF 22. Set in 1930s Denmark, mostly on Sprøgo island, which housed an institution for “troubled” and “immoral women,” Unruly never uses the term “eugenics,” but that’s very much its subject

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