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Victoria Alexander’s Top 10 for 2018

January 15, 2019

Rob Goald’s 10 Best Movies of 2018

January 10, 2019

Victoria Alexander reviews BEAST

June 24, 2018

Film Review: “Cuties” Offers a Complex Examination of Tween Agency

Cuties (“Mignonnes”) (Maïmouna Doucouré, 2020) 3 out of 4 stars. Its dispiriting (and misleading) American movie trailer aside, the new French film Cuties, from first-time feature director Maïmouna Doucouré, provides a fascinating, complex and disturbing portrait of tween girlhood. The film showcases the genuine unease and identity confusion generated by a society that simultaneously sexualizes […]

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