Relic ★★★
For women in horror films, trauma is fated. It is their bodies at the mercy of narrative evil; their painContinue Reading
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Siberia ★★½
Following 2019’s Tommaso, master of grit, rebel auteur Abel Ferrara returns with Willem Dafoe for a lofty nightmarish charge atContinue Reading
Hava, Maryam, Ayesha ★★★
Stories from women’s voices are few and far between from Afghanistan and other conservative Muslim countries. Sahraa Karimi is theContinue Reading
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway ★★★★
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is an absurd cocktail of pop culture, history and unchecked lunacy, aContinue Reading
Agnes Joy ★★½
Somewhere between a patient character portrait and a family melodrama, Silja Hauksdóttir‘s Agnes Joy is a clean but confused littleContinue Reading
White on White ★★★
The second feature from Chilean director Théo Court, White on White, is set in Tierra del Fuego, an archipelago offContinue Reading
Red Moon Tide ★★½
Lois Patiño’s second feature film Lúa Vermella (Red Moon Tide) received its world premier at Berlinale 2020. The Spanish artistContinue Reading
Stories from the Chestnut Woods ★★
Elliptical storytelling – wherein a filmmaker constructs their narrative through concise, specific, and not necessarily linear moments – is aContinue Reading
Anne at 13,000 ft ★★★½
Anne at 13,000 ft is Canadian writer/director Kazik Radwanski’s sharp and energetic character study of a woman teetering around theContinue Reading
Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine ★★½
Given its world premier at Berlinale’s Forum, Window Boy Would Also Like to Have a Submarine is an ambitious andContinue Reading
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