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women in film

reviews 4 stars, beanie feldstein, comedy, greta gerwig, lady bird, laurie metcalf, saoirse ronan, timothée chalamet, tracy letts, women in film

LADY BIRD

November 12, 2017

We were idiots, once. Beautiful, beautiful, idiots.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3 stars, angela robinson, bella heathcote, bio-pic, connie britton, drama, luke evans, oliver platt, professor marston and the wonder women, rebecca hall, reviews, women in film, wonder woman

PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN

October 22, 2017

When unconventional love brought three people together, an icon was born.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 2.5 stars, alan cummings, andrea riseborough, austin stowell, battle of the sexes, bill pullman, drama, elisabeth shue, emma stone, jonathan dayton, reviews, sarah silverman, sports, steve carell, valerie faris, women in film

BATTLE OF THE SEXES

October 1, 2017

Sometimes it’s not about who won the battle, but how they won that matters…

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF amy seimetz, elias koteas, ellen page, kate mara, LGBTQ, my days of mercy, tali shalom ezer, tiff, tiff 2017, women in film

MY DAYS OF MERCY plays TIFF 2017

September 17, 2017

A story that pleads with us not let one moment or one label define who we are.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF foreign film, french, gilles lellouche, maría valverde, melanie laurent, plonger, tiff 2017, women in film

PLONGER plays TIFF 2017

September 17, 2017

Director Mélanie Laurent reminds us that the ones who stay put, sometimes claim they’ve run away.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF antonio aakeel, arjun gupta, bornila chatterjee, foreign film, indian, jayant kripalani, karan pandit, naseeruddin shah, neeraj kabi, savita rani, sayani gupta, suraj sharma, the hungry, tiff, tiff 2017, tisca chopra, women in film

THE HUNGRY plays TIFF 2017

September 16, 2017

“Titus” throws a lavish Indian wedding, and Bornila Chatterjee captures every bloody moment.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF bernie bonvoisin, bruno forzani, elina löwensohn, forign film, french, hélène cattet, hervé sogne, laissez bronzer les cadavres, let the corpses tan, marc barbé, marine sainsily, michelangelo marchese, midnight madness, stéphane ferrara, tiff, tiff 2017, women in film

LET THE CORPSES TAN plays TIFF 2017

September 15, 2017

Gold, blood, and conceptual art. All in a day’s work for some.

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Ryan McNeil
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