Tag: reviews
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The Glass Ceiling is Really Made of Cement in Couture and Maddie’s Secret
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS Despite radically different narrative and tonal styles, Couture and Maddie’s Secret offer a rare and welcome look into the unique struggles of being an ambitious career woman who is suddenly, and heartbreakingly, faced with the dissolution of her career dreams, forced to face the vulnerabilities that successful women are forced…
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Nothing is Sacred Under Capitalism in Egghead Republic and A Useful Ghost
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS While we live in increasingly weighty and hopeless times, one of cinema’s greatest powers in times like these is to offer moments of hope, of originality, of curiosity, and to remind us of the ongoing potential for change that capitalism works overtime to distract us from. A Useful Ghost and…
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Good Boy(s), Bad Apples, and a Pedagogy of Violence
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS These two films comedically and creatively take the modern Western educational system to task, revealing how a system claiming to be rooted in equal access and accommodation cannot succeed when that system is denied the support it needs to care for ‘troubled’ children. By Tamar Hanstke The conception of the…
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Charli’s Angels, Erupcja and Sacrifice
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS If I had a nickel for how many films I saw at TIFF that featured both Charli XCX and a devastating volcanic eruption, I would only have two nickels, but isn’t it weird that it happened twice? By Tamar Hanstke As a follower of Charli’s work, but not knowledgeable enough…
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The Sixties Scoop and Intergenerational Trauma in Meadowlarks & Blood Lines
TIFTY TWOFERS: TIFF 2025 REVIEWS Meadowlarks and Blood Lines are two deeply personal, intimate examinations of individual and intergenerational traumas stemming from the Sixties Scoop, and are particularly prescient in a cultural moment in which far too many seek to tick off Truth and Reconciliation as a completed project on Canada’s to-do list. By Tamar…
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