Film
Defiant and tonally offbeat, French Exit mirrors, in a sense, its female protagonist, who doesn’t give a damn what the world thinks of her.
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Sundance’s strengths for me this year (as in the past) were the festival’s documentaries.
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“Everybody in this industry right now is looking for like, female beards to rescue them, but that’s not what we’re here for.”
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I Blame Society may put off some enlightened neoliberals, but it is a fun little B-movie with killer insight and attitude to spare.
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The excitement of these films – perhaps the word frisson would not be amiss – is that these women are envisioned as explorers in the land of Eros, map-makers of new terrain, discovering and inventing love as they go.
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What we need is to see the world through the eyes of Black activists, even though that might be frightening to White audiences reluctant to deal with the unmediated truth.
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A B-movie inspired horror-comedy, Psycho Goreman is a delightfully schlocky homage to entry-level, kid-centric horror films but with the sort of grotesque violence one would expect from a more adult-oriented movie.
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Censor explores thought-provoking questions about the strange relationships between films, society, fantasy, and reality — and individual identity — in an increasingly mediated and violent world.
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An intriguing look at smashing the patriarchy through the art of pole dancing.
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Arts Remembrance: Christopher Plummer, 1929-2021
It is difficult to think of a harder-working actor or one more devoted to his craft.
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