More from Lovia Gyarkye
‘The Queen of My Dreams’ Review: A Charming and Fanciful Debut Tackles Mother-Daughter Relationships
In Fawzia Mirza's film, a queer Pakistani Canadian girl ('Sex Lives of College Girls' star Amrit Kaur) struggles to reckon with the chasm between her and her mother.
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‘Orlando, My Political Biography’ Review: A Playful and Cerebral Doc Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Radical Novel
Spanish philosopher Paul B. Preciado helms a documentary that links the eponymous hero of Woolf's 1928 novel to a multigenerational group of 25 trans and genderqueer people.
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‘Something You Said Last Night’ Review: A Sensitively Observed but Insufficiently Probing Family Drama
A young trans woman goes on vacation with her caring but overbearing Italian family in Luis De Filippis' debut feature, executive produced by Julia Fox.
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‘It Lives Inside’ Review: A Horror Debut About First-Generation Immigrants Falls Short of Its Potential
A teenager races against time to save an old friend from ancient demonic forces in Bishal Dutta's feature debut.
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‘Stamped From the Beginning’ Review: Roger Ross Williams’ Absorbing but Limited Doc Recasts Black History’s Narrators
The director of 'Love to Love You, Donna Summer' and 'Cassandro' adapts Ibram X. Kendi's influential book about the roots of American racism.
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‘Wicked Little Letters’ Review: Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley Reunite in Strained Period Comedy
Thea Sharrock directs a feature based on a real-life scandal that occurred in Littlehampton in 1920.
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‘Sing Sing’ Review: Colman Domingo Shines in a Subtle Portrait of a Prison Arts Program
The actor flexes his range in Greg Kwedar's feature about incarcerated men trying to stage a theater production inside their maximum security correctional facility.
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‘Woman of the Hour’ Review: Anna Kendrick’s Directorial Debut Is Chilling Even When It Stumbles
The actress helms and stars in a dramatization of a serial killer's appearance on a dating game show in the middle of his murder spree.
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‘Pain Hustlers’ Review: Emily Blunt and Chris Evans Star in David Yates’ Propulsive Opioid Crime Drama
The 'Harry Potter' director helms a film about the shadowy pharmaceutical sales practices that helped kickstart the opioid epidemic.
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‘Quiz Lady’ Review: Sandra Oh and Awkwafina Have Infectious Chemistry in Heartfelt Hulu Comedy
The actresses play sisters who compete on a game show to pay their mother's gambling debt in a movie co-starring Holland Taylor, Will Ferrell, Jason Schwartzman and Tony Hale.
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‘Close to You’ Review: Elliot Page Delivers a Deeply Felt Lead Turn in a Well-Intentioned but Clunky Drama
Page plays a trans man whose sojourn to his hometown forces him to confront a painful past in Dominic Savage's film.
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‘We Grown Now’ Review: A Delicate Coming-of-Age Story Set in Chicago’s Cabrini-Green Homes
In 'Hala' director Minhal Baig's latest feature, two best friends face growing pains in a misunderstood neighborhood.
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