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Gender and Sexuality

Explore depictions of masculinity, femininity, and sexual identity.

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.

Alex Heeney / March 22, 2024

Yuni is a smart Indonesian coming-of-age story

In Kamila Andini’s Yuni, teenage Yuni tries to figure out who she is amidst growing patriarchal pressures.

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.

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