Reviews

With over 3 million subscribers on her channel and more than a billion combined views, Lily Hevesh is a YouTube sensation. Her accomplishments are even more impressive when one learns she is the only female in...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2019 as part of our Berlinale coverage. School can be a hostile environment – particularly for those who don’t quite fit in. A Colony centres around Mylia...

“Small price to pay for an awesome ass,” are the famous last words in this film. From writer-director Elza Kephart comes Shudder’s Slaxx, a campy horror comedy about a possessed pair of jeans that come...

An eerie tale of sisterhood haunted by the sound of chanting and complete with shots of burning stakes - Coven of Sisters is tasked with retelling a familiar story. Pablo Agüero’s film is a battle of...

In a clean break from his occasionally successful biopic habit, director John Lee Hancock returns with an original screenplay and a plunge into the “dark side of America". By the end, his protagonists find...

Sarah (Julia Sarah Stone) spends her nights sleeping outside, breaking into her own house in the morning to shower before heading off to school. The reasons why this teenager chooses homelessness over a warm...

This film was previously reviewed in August 2020 as part of our Fantasia Festival coverage. Why can’t we just have different opinions and be nice about it? Femke Boot (Katja Herbers), a columnist, author,...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Shaka King’s highly anticipated Judas and the Black Messiah takes us back to 1968 in Chicago, Illinois....

This loose adaptation of Norah Sadava and Amy Nostbakken’s play of the same name is brought to the silver screen by Mansfield Park director Patricia Rozema. The Emmy-winning writer, producer, and director...

This film was previously reviewed in June 2020 as part of our Sheffield Doc/Fest coverage. In 2018, one year before she passed away, the influential feminist filmmaker Barbara Hammer revisited a project she...

A three-and-a-half-hour documentary could feel like a school assignment, but director Maria Speth and subject Dieter Bachmann make spending time with one teacher and his diverse class a leisurely joy. Mr...

Polina (Alina Korol) works at her father’s fish shop. She sleeps poorly worrying about her family, and when an eccentric woman claims to be selling a tea to cure insomnia she buys some, half curious and half...

“Do you want to hear about the other kid we lost? We had a little girl named Angela, she was quite the character…”, says Angelo’s dad as his son sits in front of him, camera in hand, as he attempts to...

There are a couple of 2021 releases titled Limbo, and Soi Cheang’s gritty serial killer drama distinguishes itself with its relentless nastiness. Its cops and criminals use anything they can find as...

Nelly (Matilda Gross) is different, that much is clear from the opening scenes of Amanda Adolfsson’s Nelly Rapp: Monster Agent. In front of an audience of fellow school children, she stages an elaborate...