Film & Television

It’s a feature-length pacifier that works as advertised until your child begs you to buy Skye’s jet figurine. But if that’s the goal, they’ve done a damn good job.

While the film’s primary location on a Zoom call recalls the fatigue and trauma from an all-too-real worldwide horror, “From the Shadows” uses its COVID-induced setup as a means to explore alternate forms of storytelling.

Serving queer youth, Camp fYrefly is a space where kids can be kids, free from the marginalization they experience in heteropatriarchal society. This energizing community space is the focus of Jen Markowitz’s debut documentary film “Summer Qamp,” which screened at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.

Melding intimate interviews about the experiences and perspectives of some campers alongside footage of them challenging fears at camp, learning about the queer community and bantering over breakfast, Markowitz’s documentary offers a poignant glimpse into a radically transformative summer camp.

Although “The Nun II” does a good job weaving together its cinematic subjectivity with enticing storytelling early on, the action takes too long to build up, only to leave audience members discontented and desiring a bit more terror.

Kicking off on July 20 and running through Aug. 6, this year’s festival showcased the diversity, complexity and enduring spirit of Jewish life around the world in its vast array of short and feature-length films.

Passionate and vocal about her experience as a trans, Latine filmmaker, Alberto possesses the proper skillset to create a film that appropriately and accurately addresses LGBTQ+ issues within the Latine community. 

With its muted colors and exploration of uncertainty, “The Fallen Bridge” pays notable homage to crime documentaries and classic crime dramas.

As one of few sapphic films that are shamelessly sexual, “Bottoms” certainly empowers.

Eyeing a long line of commercial hits, “The Hill” attempts to reverse-engineer the process, scraping together exceedingly overused truisms to concoct a hackneyed imitation.