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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande movie review: come as you are

Fri, Jul 01, 2022
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Full of honesty and humanity, utterly lacking in shame over a basic human need, the female experience of which is almost universally ignored onscreen. Light, funny, diverting. So why was I bawling?

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Nude Tuesday movie review: nonsense, not quite inspired (Tribeca Film Festival 2022)

Fri, Jun 17, 2022
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The wacky-yet-heartfelt comedy just about works; the gibberish dialogue, not so much. But this could be the makings of a crowdsourced cult fave, if playful viewers end up creating their own subtitles.

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My So-Called Selfish Life documentary review: TFW you lack that certain “maternal instinct”

Tue, May 10, 2022
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Dismantles myths about motherhood and misconceptions about child-free women with brisk, cheeky humor and intersectionality, and begins to build the cultural scripts we need for paths without kids.

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Happening (L’événement) movie review: the history about to repeat itself

Fri, May 06, 2022
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An intense, intimate tale of historical illegal abortion, with a central performance of focused terror; a harrowing body horror that looms again. I cannot overstate the absolute urgency of this film.

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Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché documentary review: a howl out of the past for today

Mon, Feb 07, 2022
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A loving appreciation, but never a blinkered one, of the punk philosopher, a woman ahead of her time and still timely: iconoclastic, creative, ever-searching, a cultural observer who saw deep and far.

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Maxima and Mothers of the Revolution documentaries review: women getting it done

Tue, Feb 01, 2022
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Two new documentaries tell inspiring stories about ordinary women radicalized into revolutionary action, from anti-nuke protests in the 1980s to anti-corporate and anti-corruption activism today.

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Passing movie review: the realities and fallacies of race

Wed, Jan 19, 2022
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Everything about this astonishing, just-plain-satisfying film feels like a revelation. Bone-deep subversive yet universal, dripping with a quiet dread yet also beautiful and beautifully wise.

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Delicate State movie review: life goes on as the world falls apart

Thu, Jan 06, 2022
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An ultra-low-budget marvel, a perspective on societal disruption and disorder as everyday precariousness comes for those previously sheltered from it. Barely speculative, maybe terrifyingly prescient.

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Silent Night movie review: house party at the end of the world

Sun, Dec 19, 2021
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Apocalyptically sorta-satirical, bone-deep terrifying slap in the face that humanity has properly earned. Formidable, intense… and funny, in a very dry way that is nevertheless difficult to laugh at.

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Censor movie review: the horror of the persistence of memory

Fri, Oct 01, 2021
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Ambiguous, introspective, thoughtful. As weirdly uncomfortable as horror should be, and rarely is, as it examines how these movies can infect us. Niamh Algar is terrific, and deeply empathetic.

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