reviews

2022 Films, essay, reviews, Sexual Assault Awareness, Toronto International Film Festival

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TIFF 2022 Review: “Women Talking” shows courage from different perspectives

by Robyn Bacon

December 21, 2022

We saved this review to feature until closer to the release, coverage took place at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2022. “Women Talking” comes to select theaters in

Cult Classic, essay, Horror, personal essay, reviews

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Cult Classic series: Cronenberg’s “Crash” Under the Lens of Toxic Internet Culture

by Peyton Robinson

September 22, 2022

Cinema Femme will be bringing you essays written by women and non-binary people about films that are cult classics and how they are impacting our world today. Today we feature

2022 Films, Horror, reviews, Sundance

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“Resurrection” review: Rebecca Hall’s commanding performance takes us deeper into the mind of a survivor

by Rebecca Martin

July 27, 2022

The psychological horror film “Resurrection” comes to theaters this Friday, directed and written by Andrew Semans, and starring Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth. Available On Demand August 5th. In this film,

Film Festivals, Letterboxd, reviews, Sundance, Tribeca

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Letterboxd voices: Highlighting 2022 Film Festival gems directed by women and non-binary people

by cinemafemme

July 22, 2022

We pulled some films from this year’s festivals that we feel are among 2022’s cinematic gems. These are the ones that could have been easily missed, but found by many

Letterboxd, reviews

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Letterboxd review: “The Hitch-Hiker” (1953) directed by Ida Lupino, reviewed by Emmy-winning editor Kate Hackett

by cinemafemme

June 7, 2022

Cinema Femme will be featuring our Letterboxd reviews as a series on our website. We started as a magazine focused on film criticism, we are now using Letterboxd as our

Film Festivals, Horror, Juneteenth, reviews, Sundance

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Cinema Femme at Sundance Day 4: Happening, Alice, Hatching and Nanny

by cinemafemme

January 24, 2022

Happening The two best films I’ve seen thus far in 2022 won acclaim on the festival circuit last year prior their premieres at Sundance, and both happen to be astonishingly

reviews

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Erin Lee Carr places us in the shoes of a drug addict in the four-part docuseries ‘How To Fix a Drug Scandal’

by Rebecca Martin

March 31, 2020

Meet Sonja Farak. She is a 35-year-old chemist who develops an addiction for the drugs she’s testing at UMass Amherst, starting with cocaine. As her addiction blows up, it shines

personal essay, reviews, Uncategorized

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‘Women According to Men’ explores our shared humanity

by cinemafemme

March 11, 2020

Author: Zainab Zeb Khan  Iranian women’s rights have been a prime example of why personal stories are integral to understanding history. On March 1st, the Muslim American Leadership Alliance (MALA)

reviews

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Watching films not for overindulgence, but to develop my taste buds: bite-sized reviews to whet your appetite, bon appétit

by Rebecca Martin

November 21, 2019

Last year I edited a video (video also featured at bottom of this piece) with scenes from some of my favorite films I’d seen over that year correlated with my

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