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Simran Hans is a freelance writer for publications including BuzzFeed, The FADER, Little White Lies, Pitchfork and Sight & Sound magazine.
Set in the 1950s, the movie is a lesson in the suffocating domesticity that women of that time faced.
It’s a tragedy that, at the time of its release, the film – quiet and old-fashioned in its ambitions – was eclipsed by Phoenix’s outsized star persona.
Bowie was 36 when he starred in Scott's 1983 erotic horror. Five years after his death, it feels strange and sad to see him contemplating his mortality in the prime of his youth.
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s 2000 debut film is clear-eyed and serious about female ambition and gender roles.
The joy is in watching the vulnerable Erica Benton (Jill Clayburgh) build herself back up.
The floating city of Venice and its winding canals serve as the backdrop to a dark tale in The Comfort of Strangers.
Nominated for seven Oscars, the film is considered James L Brooks's masterpiece. But another force also moulded the movie.
Why Devil in a Blue Dress should’ve been a hit.
The early Noughties film, starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor, left me so giddy I watched it twice.
In 2009, this was an anti-rom com that critics loved. Years later, it was reappraised as misogynistic. How does it hold up a decade on?
