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Women Directors

In honour of #52filmsbywomen, we've collected all of our reviews of films directed by women and interviews with female directors all in one place.

An Inconvenient Sequel, Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk

Alex Heeney / July 26, 2017

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 approaches needed to mitigate climate change.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Love Is Thicker Than Water

Alex Heeney / July 23, 2017

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 Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story.

Beguiled, Sofia Coppola

Mary Angela Rowe / June 30, 2017

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.

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.

Handsome Devil

Alex Heeney / June 20, 2017

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 Date for Mad Mary, In Between, and God’s Own Country.

Amanda Kernell, Sami Blood

Alex Heeney / May 31, 2017

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 history.

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