A place to think deeply about movies
Explore films that leverage — and problematize — the definitions of a given genre, from horror films to the Western.
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 …
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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 …
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In Jenna Cato Bass's horror film, a Black family's domestic servitude to a white family is the stuff of nightmares. Click here to find all of our TIFF 2021 …
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Maxine Peake leads Thomas Clay's refreshing genre film, Fanny Lye Deliver'd (The Delivered in the US), about a woman's emancipation. We named Fanny Lye …
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This year's Unnamed Footage Film Festival was a 24-hour livestream that illuminated the best and worst traits of the found footage genre. At 6am GMT, …
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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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