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A woman in a black outfit stands in a dimly lit room, surrounded by seated people.

Reel Reviews | Quickening (TIFF ’21)

15 September, 202115 September, 2021FilmGordon

by Etan Vlessing | The Hollywood Reporter Haya Waseem’s Quickening is part of a new wave of immigrant films from Canadian filmmakers telling first-generation tales of having [read more]

A woman in historical attire sits pensively by a small fire indoors.

Reel Reviews | Farha (TIFF ’21)

14 September, 202115 September, 2021FilmGordon

by Jared Mobarek | TIFF The text reads: Palestine, 1948. That’s all you need to know to understand what’s coming.

Two women facing each other in a dimly lit room.

Reel Reviews | The Mad Woman’s Ball (TIFF ’21)

14 September, 202115 September, 2021FilmGordon

David Ehrlich | IndieWire When Victor Hugo was laid to rest in June of 1885, 40,000 people slept on the streets of Paris in order [read more]

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Reel Reviews | Lakewood (TIFF ’21)

14 September, 202115 September, 2021FilmGordon

by Kristen Lopez | IndieWire There’s been no better time to craft a single-person thriller, especially with the pandemic forcing creators to limit how many [read more]

A woman holding a small bird indoors, looking at it gently.

Reel Reviews | The Starling (TIFF ’21)

14 September, 202115 September, 2021FilmGordon

by Kate Erbland | IndieWire Let’s get this out of the way: The eponymous bird at the center of Theodore Melfi’s cloying, if still tender-hearted dramedy [read more]

A woman and a man sit apart, looking away from each other in a dimly lit setting.

Reel Reviews | The Wheel (TIFF ’21)

13 September, 202115 September, 2021FilmGordon

by Jared Mobarak | The Film Stage Despite only being 24 years old, Walker (Taylor Gray) and Albee (Amber Midthunder) head into the woods from [read more]