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LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW! It’s hard to fathom that in many parts of the world, women can’t willingly leave an abusive marriage. Even for some countries in the West, it wasn’t that long ago when women weren’t able to exercise this seemingly basic sense of agency. It’s with this context that we go into

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW!! Being a teenager is a weird time. Your taste in music becomes your entire personality.

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW!! Our increasingly digital society is embarking on an uncertain future. The ramifications of a generation living much of their existence through a screen remain to be seen, but few would deem it a positive development. Adele Tulli’s beautiful, non-narrative exploration (appropriately titled REAL) of our new reality is rare in

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL 2024 REVIEW!! Desperate times call for desperate measures. This well-worn cliché is at the heart of promising Lithuanian filmmaker Saule Bliuvaite’s feature-length debut, Akiplėša (Toxic). For young girls living in abject poverty, modeling is an alluring means to escape a life without any realistic avenues to success, as they certainly can’t look

In 1981, the Moroccan government cracked down on working class citizens in Casablanca protesting austerity measures and the general increase in prices of material goods like food.

Revenge only gets one so far, but The Wasp leans right into the most debased form of it imaginable.

Boxing films are an American staple. There's a primal beauty inherent in the battle between two fighters, and no sport is more cinematic at its core.

To think there was a time when audiences thought found footage was a compelling style of cinema.

Han Shuai's Green Night provides a familiar framework for an LGBTQ+ romance on the silver screen.

What do you do when you've worked your entire life toward one goal, only to have it taken away by a freak