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Ana Lily Amirpour

AWFJ Presents… a collection of amazing movies by (and about) women

Mon, Jun 14, 2021
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I’m very excited by this project! I can heartily recommend two of the six films — A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and Mustang — and I am going to take this opportunity to catch up with the other four.

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The Bad Batch movie review: a girl walks into dystopia alone

Fri, Jun 23, 2017
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Filmmaker-to-watch Ana Lily Amirpour again shakes up a familiar genre — here, the postapocalyptic adventure — in unexpected ways, but stumbles a bit in the process.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night movie review: blood pressure

Tue, Mar 31, 2015
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The Iranian skateboarding vampire feminist spaghetti western we have all been waiting for, creepy cool and gorgeously sinister, engorged with suspense and desire.

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