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A tender quest for the truth, and a balance between clashing cultures.

Horror has a way of using cinema like a blade. Sometimes the cuts are hard, fast, and violent. The viewer is left a bloody and pleading mess. Other times, the dagger is slipped in gently, easily, almost unnoticeably…until it is twisted, and at that point there’s no point in pleading. Rose Glass’ debut feature, SAINT…

A long time ago, a man went on television and taught us all that we had value in this world, and that if we chose to speak, he would listen to us even if nobody else world. Many years later, we are forgetting his lessons – convincing one another that we are not valuable to…

On the anxieties of remaining inside, and the strange adventures that await outside.

A film made this critic’s heart burst with joy. Send flowers…and records.

As the lights came up at the TIFF ’19 premiere screening of TAMMY’S ALWAYS DYING, screenwriter Joanne Sarazen expressed her desire to portray a family that expresses their love through brutality. If that was the artist’s mission, then mission accomplished. The only question that remains unanswered is whether the audience wishes to be brutalized. TAMMY’S…