THE PINK PILL – Review by April Neale

The film’s core message is direct: Female pleasure is fundamental to health, dignity, and equality, not a trivial matter. Witty, incisive, and unapologetically provocative, The Pink Pill demands that viewers confront the hypocrisy of a culture that celebrates male virility while policing female desire. It challenges the rising chorus of voices that seek to return women to narrower roles under the banner of tradition or faith. And it insists that acknowledging women as full sexual beings is not radical. It is overdue. In the end, the pink pill is not just about libido. It is about whether society is willing to accept that women’s pleasure carries weight. It deserves research, respect, and recognition. That it is not a problem to be suppressed, but a reality to be understood. The fear exposed in this film is real. So is the resolve of those who refuse to be silenced.

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MOVIE OF THE WEEK November 7, 2025: BELÉN

Based on a true story from the 2010s about a woman accused of illegal abortion and murder in Argentina, director Dolores Fonzi’s powerful drama Belén (adapted from Ana Correa’s book Somos Belén) couldn’t feel more timely if you ripped it straight out of today’s headlines. It’s simultaneously an impassioned plea for women’s bodily autonomy and a call to arms against the beliefs and institutions that make such a plea necessary in the first place.

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BELÉN – Review by Loren King

This powerhouse film couldn’t be more timely which makes it both urgent and enraging. Director and star Dolores Fonzi’s Belen immediately draws the viewer into the shocking case of a young woman (Camila Plaate)from the Argentina provinces who, before Argentina passed a law legalizing abortion, suffers a miscarriage while being treated for abdominal pain in a local hospital. A scene where police barge into the hospital room while she’s being medically treated and handcuff and arrest her as she cries out for her mother will be jarring for US viewers in the post-Dobbs era.

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