TIFF 2025: ‘Maddie’s Secret’ Review
September 14, 2025
“Maddie’s Secret, is a John Waters melodrama, if those Waters’ serrated edges were draped in soft gauze.”
TIFF 2025: ‘Mile End Kicks’ Review
September 9, 2025
“Mile End Kicks is an indie sleaze period piece. Set in 2011, Grace goes to parties in tights, miniskirts, and red wedge Toms.”
TIFF 2025: ‘Canceled: The Paula Deen Story’ Review
September 9, 2025
“Deen, in this cobbled-together justification, hits many spots on Racist White Lady Bingo.”
‘Weapons’ Review
August 26, 2025
“An image meant to imbue a sense of comfort and security — a nice house in the quiet suburbs — feels like it could instead host something foul.”
‘Together’ Review
July 30, 2025
“Together skirts close to a one-to-one allegory regarding the fear of being swallowed up into a village-less nuclear family.”
’28 Years Later’ Review
July 2, 2025
“With their return, Boyle and Garland make the most out of the larger canvas the years away gave them to work with.”
‘Friendship’ Review
June 20, 2025
“On a premise level, Friendship is functionally a romantic comedy.”
‘The Ugly Stepsister’ Review
May 12, 2025
“What’s most interesting and enjoyable to me about The Ugly Stepsister sits beyond the Cinderella-parody and allegorical reflections on Ozempic and rhinoplasties.”
Songs for the Siren: The Feminism of David Lynch
May 1, 2025
“Betty/Diane arrives in Hollywood from her small town with big dreams and a certain aw-shucks nature that’s almost impossible to separate from Lynch’s own persona.”
To Lead With Desire: On ‘Chungking Express’
April 16, 2025
“It’s not only their understanding of their desire, but their insistence on unapologetically surrendering to their desires, that allows for the women of Chungking Express to express, seduce, and pine so singularly.”