Based on Ojibwe author Richard Wagamese’s novel set in the 1960s, Stephen Campanelli's Indian Horse uses the hook of Canada’s national sport — hockey — to …
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Social Justice
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The Florida Project provocatively depicts poverty with respect
Sean Baker’s latest, The Florida Project, avoids being an exploitative portrayal of poverty by empathetically portraying its characters’ daily struggles, and …
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TIFF Review: In Luk’Luk’I, Vancouver plays itself, but the Olympics don’t
Contrasting the patriotism of the Olympics with daily struggles in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, Wayne Wapeemukwa's Luk’Luk’I explores the shallowness of …
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Review: Whose Streets? is more the story of a people than of individuals
Whose Streets? is a documentary about on-the-ground activism in the Ferguson uprising by filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis. …
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Elle and Big Little Lies: Progressive representations of violence against women
Paul Verhoeven's Elle and Jean-Marc Vallée's Big Little Lies share the common goal of unmasking the omnipresence of misogyny via its horrific …
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Review: In Sami Blood, an Indigenous Swedish girl is caught between two worlds
Amanda Kernell’s Sami Blood is an astonishingly accomplished and movie feature debut, which follows an Indigenous Swedish girl caught between two …
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