Peg Aloi
At times, Zombi Child successfully hovers between spooky documentary and an art house coming-of-age film.
Read MoreThe 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?
Read MoreI was blown away by how good After We Leave looks, its subtlety and plausibility and confident simplicity.
Read MoreAmong this group of strong animated shorts I found the French selection, Mémorable, to be the most powerful and artful.
Read MoreWhere 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.
Read MoreTo 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.
Read MoreLes Misérables invites us to ponder, in real time, how people respond in a chaotic, dangerous situation.
Read MoreThis BBC/Netflix production is an audacious rekindling of the undying appeal of literature’s most famous vampire.
Read MoreArtful films like Just Mercy remain necessary — these are the kind of stories our troubled nation needs to hear if we are to move forward.
Read MoreThe 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.
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