Category: Review
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: មុនដំបូងខ្មែរក្រហមសម្លាប់ប៉ារបស់ខ្ញុំ // First They Killed My Father (Angelina Jolie)
In a dense forest, a young Cambodian girl coaxes a tarantula from the trees, its furry legs gingerly creeping along the trunk. Does she mean…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: The Mirror (Giulia Achenza)
From the opening second of this less-than-three-minute short film I recognised the music playing over the already eye-catching images as deftly similar to that of…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Lune / Moon (Zoé Pelchat)
Joanie Martel gives a beautiful and nuanced performance as Babz, a “lonely but endearing ex convict” in Zoe Pelchat’s Lune. When we meet Babz, she’s…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: All This Panic (Jenny Gage)
Now, I’m no teenage girl. Never have been. But stories on film about adolescent girls is a fairly common thread. And a soaring trend, the…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Moxie (Amy Poehler)
While feminism has grown over the decades, a newer concept being fully realized and defined is girl power. The adolescent experience for girls can be…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Heroines (Katia Badalian)
Heroines lures its audience into a false sense of security, a false sense of comedy perhaps. Anna Khaja’s Regina bursts to life in the first…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Stray (Elizabeth Lo)
Back in 2020 (remember that momentous year?), ample praise was been put upon the governing bodies in Turkey by their own residents. The country’s largest…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: Chute // Strangers (Nora Longatti)
Instantly striking with low level shock, this film opens with a scene which immediately asks important questions. You wonder who the girl is and what…
FemmeFilmFest 7 Review: Titane // Titanium (Julia Ducournau)
In the world of Julia Ducourneau’s Titane, nobody survives a collision intact. Even when characters walk away from various wreckages with their lives, writer-director Ducourneau…
FemmeFilmFest7 Review: J’ai Le Cafard // Bint Werdan (Maysaa Almumin)
One wonders how far you have to say, loneliness is a bitch and I’m numbed by the mundane office life, before your eventual companionship with…
TIFF 2022 Review: Women Talking (Sarah Polley)
“What follows is an act of female imagination” is the title card that precedes Sarah Polley’s Women Talking — a film derived from a novel…
TIFF ‘22 Review Dispatch #3: The Telluride Films – ‘Good Night Oppy’, ‘Empire of Light’, ‘Women Talking’
In our last set of reviews we looked at some of the most notable Venice premieres that also played TIFF, so today let’s do the…
TIFF ’22 Review Dispatch #2: The Venice Films – ‘The Whale’, ‘The Son’, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
When the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was founded in 1976, it was originally called The Festival of Festivals, and the idea behind the fest…
TIFF ’22 Review Dispatch #1: The Big Three – ‘The Fablemans’, ‘Glass Onion’, ‘The Woman King’
Two weeks before TIFF I wrote a preview piece for Rotten Tomatoes that listed the 11 Toronto premieres with the biggest buzz, and I ranked…
