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Must Reads

Must reads are the best of the best articles at The Seventh Row. These include reviews, interviews, and essays. If you're new to the site, this is a good place to start to get a sense of what kinds of stories we write. Here is the best of our multidisciplinary approach to reviewing films, our most illuminating and original interviews, and our best essays.

Lupita Nyong'o, Us, Women in Horror Month

Orla Smith / February 26, 2020

Lupita Nyong’o in Us (Great horror performances #3)

Orla Smith discusses why Lupita Nyong’o’s performance in Us is one of her favourites by an actress in a horror film.

Claire Foy, Unsane, Women in Horror Month

Alex Heeney / February 25, 2020

Claire Foy in Unsane (Great horror performances #2)

In this excerpt from her essay on Claire Foy’s career, which features in our feminist horror ebook Beyond Empowertainment, Alex Heeney discusses the many masks of Claire Foy in Unsane.

Isabelle Adjani, Possession, Women in Horror Month

Lena Wilson / February 24, 2020

Isabelle Adjani in Possession (Great horror performances #1)

Lena Wilson discusses why Isabelle Adjani’s performance in Possession is one of her favourites by an actress in a horror film.

Just Mercy, To Kill a Mockingbird, Les Miserables 2019, Ladj Ly

Orla Smith / February 1, 2020

Les Misérables and Just Mercy use classic texts to explore systemic racism

Rather than positioning Les Misérables and Just Mercy as retellings, Ladj Ly and Destin Daniel Cretton engage with modern France’s and America’s relationships to classic texts.

Jumbo, Noemie Merlant, Zoe Wittock

Orla Smith / January 27, 2020

Sundance ’20 review: Jumbo and Objectum Sexuality

Noémie Merlant shines as a woman in love with a fairground ride, but Jumbo lacks psychological insight into the real phenomenon of Objectum Sexuality.

Raw, We Are What We Are

Rosie McCaffrey / November 5, 2019

‘It is with love that I do this’: Cannibalism and power under patriarchy in Raw and We Are What We Are

In Raw and We Are What We Are, the cannibalism metaphor is used to explore what it is to be a woman living under patriarchy, in both the macro and the micro.

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