Sundance 2025: ‘Predators’ Review
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by Veronica Phillips
1d ago
Predators reveals that To Catch A Predator and its modern YouTube byproducts allow for a free pass to buy into the police state and exploitative entertainment founded on useless, fumbling nods to interpersonal justice ..read more
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Sundance 2025 Review: ‘Mad Bills To Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)’
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by Veronica Phillips
1d ago
'Mad Bills To Pay' is a modern dose of social realism ..read more
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TIFF ‘24: The Tender Embrace of ‘Sweet Angel Baby’
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by Alisha Mughal
3M ago
In Melanie Oates’s Sweet Angel Baby, a small fishing town rests calmly against the roiling and raging Labrador Sea. Everything moves with the grain in town — if you grow up here, you either move away or stay forever, marrying your high school sweetheart and aging into your parents, maybe with a bigger and more expensive house. You go to church diligently, and when developers from the city threaten to buy the land the church sits on, you organize a fundraiser so that the church can buy the land it rests on. Life in the town stays small and the same ..read more
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TIFF ‘24 Review: There is Something Off About ‘Heretic’
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by Alisha Mughal
3M ago
There’s something off about Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’s Heretic, something rotten at its pit that leaves the film feeling macabre in its subtext in a way that feels unintentional.  The film follows two young women, Mormon missionaries Sister Paxton (Chloe East) and Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) as they visit the home of Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant). Mr. Reed asked for the visit after signing up to learn more about Mormonism, but when the girls arrive at his home in an effort to spread the good word, they find that they cannot leave. Mr. Reed gerrymanders the conversation, where it ..read more
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TIFF ‘24 Review: The Immense Power of ‘Santosh’
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by Alisha Mughal
3M ago
As you watch Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, you can feel it crawl under your skin and make its way into your blood, hastening its pace until your heart is in your throat and you can taste steel. As you watch Santosh, you can feel it possess you, so much so that when you walk out after the credits, you feel blood on your hands.  The film follows 28-year-old Santosh, played with a quiet resilience by Shahana Goswami, as she attempts to stay afloat in the aftermath of her husband’s death in a rural area of Northern India. Santosh’s marriage was a ..read more
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TIFF ‘24 Review: ‘We Live in Time’ is Uneven and Underbaked
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by Alisha Mughal
3M ago
I left We Live in Time with tears in my eyes, walking in a bleary-eyed bubble filled with sweetness and love blown by the tender end of the romantic drama starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield. The bubble burst when I overheard a man leaving the theater behind me saying to a friend, “He was such a pushover!”   In an instant, the bubble burst, and I was left to consider a wrinkle I felt in the film as I was watching, but that I wrote off as my own cynicism about romance. Time and again in the film, as Garfield’s ..read more
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TIFF ‘24 Review: ‘Gülizar’ Steadily Thwarts Expectations
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by Alisha Mughal
3M ago
In Belkis Bayrak’s Gülizar, Gülizar’s (Ecem Uzun) and her fiancé Emre’s (Bekir Behrem) gazes never manage to meet. As one looks up, the other looks down, and each finds their desire for understanding, for steady ground in the other, frustrated over the course of mere seconds. It’s small and apparently inconsequential, but Bayrak telegraphs this miniature tragedy time and again in the film, and each time it lands with heartbreaking heft within an already heartbreaking film.  The film, written and directed by Bayrak, follows 22-year-old Gülizar as she travels from Turkey to Kosovo to marry ..read more
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TIFF ‘24 Review: ‘Hard Truths’
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by Veronica Phillips
4M ago
But the magic of 'Hard Truths' is the way Pansy’s self-imposed suffering reveals all the joy, connection, and potential gratitude just at her fingertips if she would only choose to see it ..read more
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TIFF ‘24 Review: Will & Harper
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by Veronica Phillips
4M ago
I have no doubt these people love Harper. But are they willing to not just celebrate her, but also denounce those in their community who are actively and regularly transphobic ..read more
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TIFF ‘24 Review: No Other Land
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by Veronica Phillips
4M ago
'No Other Land' documents not just Israel’s violent oppression, but the Palestinian people’s unbelievable capacity to prevail, to remain on their land at any cost ..read more
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