Though told from Justine's perspective, Raw is as much about the experiences of her sister, Alex (Ella Rumpf), and their relationship — which saves Justine. …
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Female Directors
In honor of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.
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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Sundance review: An Inconvenient Sequel never proves necessary
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power is an unsatisfying followup to An Inconvenient Truth, more interested in Al Gore himself than the multi-faceted …
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37th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival interrogates Jewish identity
The 37th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival interrogates the complexities of Jewish life and identity. Highlights include: Love Is Thicker Than Water, Moos, and …
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Review: Grace and violence mingle in The Beguiled
In Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled, violence erupts in Miss Martha's seminary, poorly-defended citadel of virtue, but the women never lose their poise. …
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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. …
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Toronto’s InsideOut Film Festival highlighted great queer coming-of-agers
Toronto's InsideOut Film Festival, a showcase for current LGBT cinema, featured several great queer coming-of-agers from around the world: Handsome Devil, A …
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Director Rungano Nyoni on her Zambia-set debut I Am Not a Witch
Zambia-born, Cardiff-raised director Rungano Nyoni discusses her first feature I Am Not a Witch, which tackles patriarchal constraints on women in Zambia, and …
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Writer-director Amanda Kernell talks Sami Blood
Amanda Kernell discusses her exquisite feature debut, "a coming-of-age story, with joik and blood, about a girl with a knife," and how it illuminates South Sami …
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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 worlds. …
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