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Genre Films

Explore films that leverage — and problematize — the definitions of a given genre, from horror films to the Western.

Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches, Simon Lavoie

Jake Pitre / September 28, 2017

The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches reinvents Quebec horror

Simon Lavoie’s gorgeous adaptation of the popular Québécois novel, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches critiques, subverts, and reinvents the Quebec horror film.

Julia Ducournau Raw

Orla Smith / August 8, 2017

Sisterhood is the saviour in Julia Ducournau’s humanist Raw

In this essay, Orla Smith explores how Raw is as much about the experiences of her sister, Alex (Ella Rumpf), and their relationship — which saves Justine.

Mary Angela Rowe / June 22, 2017

Review: The Bad Batch is frustratingly undercooked

Ana Lily Amirpour’s wasteland survival story, The Bad Batch raises a lot of issues while never quite getting to its point.

Personal Shopper text messages, Personal Shopper eroticism, Personal Shopper horror

Mike Thorn / March 30, 2017

‘No desire if it’s not forbidden’: Dread, eroticism, and text messaging in Personal Shopper

By using text messaging as a source of terror that morphs into eroticism, Personal Shopper acknowledges and subverts horror traditions.

Raw, Julia Ducournau

Mary Angela Rowe / March 10, 2017

Julia Ducournau’s Raw is a new kind of female body horror

Mary Angela Rowe’s review of Raw. Cannibalism is definitely a lady problem in Julia Ducournau’s Raw, but the film isn’t about the horror of female sexuality so much as the twisted results of shoving young women into a pressure cooker of experiences and expectations.

Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

Alex Heeney / November 21, 2013

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Review: The Girl on Fire burns on, but not as brightly

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the rare intelligent mainstream film that’s full of compelling characters and emotional weight.

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