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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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.
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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Interview: Atsuko Hirayanagi on her female midlife crisis comedy Oh Lucy!
A film starring Josh Hartnett presented in Critics’ Week was always going to attract our attention. Oh Lucy!, directed by first-time filmmaker Atsuko …
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Interview: Chloé Zhao on The Rider, her feminist film about masculinity
Winner of the top prize at Directors’ Fortnight, Chloé Zhao’s The Rider follows a young cowboy, Brady Blackburn (Brady Jandreau), forced to reconsider his …
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Review: In Marcela Said’s Los Perros, the personal is political
Los Perros fearlessly reveals the dilemma for women forced to choose between a desire to do whatever they want, and a desire to be recognised as political …
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Review: A deadline to wed in Rama Burshtein’s The Wedding Plan
Rama Burshtein's The Wedding Plan, her follow-up to Fill the Void, is another thoughtful exploration of women and marriage in Orthodox Jewish culture. …
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That is not what I meant at all: Claire Denis’ Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur)
Opening the Director’s Fortnight this year, Bright Sunshine In (Un Beau Soleil Intérieur) is an often disarming but always exciting new film from the French …