Female Film Critics 24/375
Nimona is a beautifully made and realized LGBTQ+ fable that is full of rebellion, joy, and the message that empathy is essential in any society. When people are hunted for just existing the question arises – who are the real monsters? Nimona doesn’t dither with the answer. Nimona is, simply put, one of the best animations of the year and one of the most heart-warming and thematically rich.
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Shadow in the Cloud is like a big hit of dopamine, pure pleasure. Roseanne Liang keeps the tension high and the action flowing, but her ace is the fly girl in the turret. Chloë Grace Moretz inhabits this fearless woman with grace, athleticism, and elan. Ten years after Kick-Ass, she is still a superhero.
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A woman in extremely difficult circumstances fights to survive and have her professional expertise recognized on her merits in an industry where disgusting, violent sexual predators rise to the top. Shadow in the Cloud is a satisfying genre ride that barrels along at a cracking pace, never sacrificing its thrills for her unwavering focus on gender politics, power, abuse and the perils of being a woman in a male-dominated workplace.
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This is a film guaranteed to scare claustrophobes who do not like the thought of being shut in a box, even one with Pennsylvania Dutch painting on the front. c is not a film for anyone who’s ever been tortured by a sociopath either. In fact, it’s hard to say who the audience for Greta is.
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Greta, it is fair to say, is not likely to rank highly in the list of director Neil Jordan’s great works. And yet, based on two words alone, we might pause to seriously consider it: those two words are, simply, “Isabelle Huppert”
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The title The Miseducation of Cameron Post announces quite clearly the message of the film. After teenager Cameron gets caught by her boyfriend making out with a female classmate, her guardians send her to God’s Promise, a religious boarding school that works mightily to guide its residents, called disciples, to a holy path following scripture’s tenets.
Read moreClouds of Sils Maria is a must-see. In it French film auteur Olivier Assayas provides an illuminating and sensitive look
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