‘The Grandmaster’, A Woman’s Winter and The Damning Power of Stasis
April 14, 2025
“When she first appears in The Grandmaster, Gong Er arrives like a queen.”
‘Gladiator 2’ as Subversive, ‘Feminine’ Spectacle
April 11, 2025
“The objectification of the gladiator’s body mirrors the same fascination with female bodies in film through a lens of “feminization”.
‘Old Boyfriends’ is a celebration of female personhood
April 9, 2025
“Dianne’s on a road trip in reverse. She knows where the road ends, a marriage that failed, and she rejects it.”
Hyper-femininity, Transaction and ‘Showgirls’ with Carlee
April 7, 2025
A conversation with Carlee Gomes
‘Chasing Chasing Amy’ Review
January 2, 2025
“Chasing Chasing Amy is most moving when it’s about making sense of the stories that allowed us to make sense of ourselves.”
“Secret Keeper”: On Uncanny Adolescence and Lake Mungo
December 18, 2024
“Lake Mungo makes tangible one of the most isolating and harrowing discoveries of adulthood: you cannot be fully understood as you by anyone.”
‘Sweetheart Deal’ Review
December 13, 2024
“At moments, Sweetheart Deal allows us into such deeply vulnerable moments that I fear an almost exploitative flavor. Is this, though, my own bias?”
‘Blink Twice’ Review
December 11, 2024
“Kravitz is too jaded to commit to conventional moral outrage but too defensive of her own position to create anything genuinely subversive.”
TIFF ’24 ‘Anora’ Review
December 9, 2024
“Ani is hustling until she’s suddenly seemingly swept up by Vanya in all earnestness, with little signal as to why or how.”
TIFF ’24 ‘Bird’ Review
December 7, 2024
“Bird is a reminder that to daydream out in the fields isn’t frivolous.”