Black Box Diaries highlights that, as it currently stands, we will not find justice through pathways run by patriarchy and the valuing of the upper-class and higher-powered voices over the marginalized. …
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Didi doesn’t soften the blows of early adolescence in the way many coming-of-age stories tend to, which only serves to make it all the more comforting.…
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Daughters is essential viewing in its insistence that we sit with the pain, grief, and ongoing that countless American families sit with daily under the oppression of the modern, for-profit prison system.…
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Against a bigoted statewide backdrop, this year’s Sundance included some particularly liberated, fluid, and complex ideas.…
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‘All of Us Strangers’ chooses, quite movingly, to look at loving as something stabilizing and true.…
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'Saltburn' fails to present Oliver’s infiltration of the Catton family, and his slurping up of their blood and guts, with a ruggedness or rawness [...] 'Saltburn' wants the idea of being nasty to be enough for us.…
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Filmmaker D.W. Waterson discusses their film Backspot, and the importance of queer joy and cheer grit.…
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‘Woman of the Hour’ uses the bare bones of its true crime anecdote to explore the impossible nature of constantly performing womanhood “correctly” under the inherent and constant threat of male violence.…
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For a film about accepting things not turning out as you once hoped, this documentary is strikingly inspirational and aspirational.…
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Not quite funny and never all that moving, ‘North Star’ is bogged down by all-too-tidy storylines and performances that are half-hearted at best.…
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