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TIFF23: “Fingernails” - Film Review
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TIFF23: “Fingernails” - Film Review

In the end, the only answer Fingernails has to offer is that it doesn’t know much more about love than you or I do. Just find someone good to figure it out with.

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TIFF23: “Poolman” - Film Review
Tina Kakadelis Tina Kakadelis

TIFF23: “Poolman” - Film Review

Poolman, above all else, is weird. It’s the eccentric adaptation of Joan Didion’s Holy Water in the form of a stoner noir oddball comedy.

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TIFF23: “National Anthem” - Film Review
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TIFF23: “National Anthem” - Film Review

The film is a blueprint for a new way of life. One that’s kinder, more community-focused, and that embraces differences. National Anthem is patriotic, and hopeful for what America can become.

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TIFF23: “Seagrass” - Film Review
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TIFF23: “Seagrass” - Film Review

Nothing in reality is neat, so why should Seagrass be? Instead, the film is simply presenting a week in these people’s lives. No better, no worse, just the laughter, pain, and complications of life on full display.

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"birth/rebirth" - Film Review
Tina Kakadelis Tina Kakadelis

"birth/rebirth" - Film Review

Birth/Rebirth is a furious, gnarly, complicated look at motherhood and science, where they intersect, where they diverge, and where they circle back into themselves.

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"River Wild" - Film Review
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"River Wild" - Film Review

It’s not every day that Seth Cohen and Blair Waldorf fight for their lives on a whitewater rafting journey, but if River Wild proves anything, it’s that this should be an everyday occurrence.

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“Landscape with Invisible Hand” - Film Review
Tina Kakadelis Tina Kakadelis

“Landscape with Invisible Hand” - Film Review

In the case of Landscape with Invisible Hand, he’s overwhelmed by the observations he wants to make. There was a tidiness and confidence to Thoroughbreds in Finley’s satirical critiques, but that razor-sharp wit seems to have dulled.

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“Kokomo City” - Documentary Film Review
Tina Kakadelis Tina Kakadelis

“Kokomo City” - Documentary Film Review

When transphobia, racism, and an alarming lack of empathy are rising. Kokomo City is an angry, passionate, proud declaration of taking up space in a world that has taken away the agency of these women.

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