At times, Zombi Child successfully hovers between spooky documentary and an art house coming-of-age film.
Peg Aloi
Film Review: “Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey” — A Harlequin Feminist Manifesto
The apocalyptic mayhem is glorious and certainly cathartic. Still, I have to ask: is this how women will rise up and take what’s ours? With violence?
Film Review: “After We Leave” — No Place Like Home
I was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.
Film Review: 2020 Oscar Animated Shorts — Sadness and Beauty
Among this group of strong animated shorts I found the French selection, Mémorable, to be the most powerful and artful.
WATCH CLOSELY: “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” — Apocalyptic Witchcraft
Where will the coven go from here? Its pivot away from patriarchy echoes the growing resistance of women the world over — and that is a powerful message indeed.
Film Review: “Color Out of Space” — Trippy, Witchy, Uneven, Hilarious
To move from a bucolic beginning to a surreal, chaotic climax, and then to an elegiac epilogue — that, in my book, is the sign of a well-crafted horror film.
Film Review: “Les Misérables” — Nobody is Safe
Les Misérables invites us to ponder, in real time, how people respond in a chaotic, dangerous situation.
Watch Closely: The Latest “Dracula” is Bold and Bloody
This BBC/Netflix production is an audacious rekindling of the undying appeal of literature’s most famous vampire.
Film Review: “Just Mercy” — The Tragedy of Justice Deferred
Artful films like Just Mercy remain necessary — these are the kind of stories our troubled nation needs to hear if we are to move forward.
Film Review: “Invisible Life” — A Sisterhood of Heartbreak
The film’s modulated softness, its moments of quiet heartfelt sorrow, are testaments to a feminism that rejects political anger in order to embrace sisterly compassion.