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Criterion Crunch Time: ‘Gas Food Lodging’

Sometimes, Hollywood’s history of, and practice of, continued misogyny really makes me wonder how different things could be on a film level with that removed. This is, of course, a complex issue...

Op-ed: The Challenging Women of Pablo Larraín

Pablo Larraín has made a career recently, especially in his last three feature films, delving deep into pain. Specifically, this pain focuses on his female protagonists. There is, of course, an easy...

Criterion Crunch Time: ‘A Touch of Sin’

There is no more challenging genre of film for me as a viewer than the anthology film. As someone who is used to standard narratives (even if they are out of order...

Criterion Crunch Time: Go Fish

When we watch a new movie and see something we rarely see, it feels revolutionary. This could be about representation, sexuality, even nonlinear timelines. But when we watch an older film, it...

Criterion Crunch Time – ‘Conceiving Ada’

When you pick movies nearly at random that are leaving the Criterion Channel, your life as a writer is never boring. When I began this column, one of my goals was to...

2021 InSession Film Awards – Staff Picks, Winners

Hey everyone, here is an important update to our InSession Film Awards (Staff Picks), as we now have our winners!  It was a heated battle, with no less than 5 categories being...

2021 InSession Film Awards – Staff Picks

This week on the InSession Film Podcast, we feature our 9th annual InSession Film Awards! This year, we did something a little bit different. We asked all of staff writers to be...

List: Dave Giannini’s Top 10 Films of 2021

2021 is a year unlike any other, but also a year like every other year.  Yes, theaters reopened (kind of). Yes, cinema was saved by three young men in spider suits (kind...

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