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Welcome to my site! My name is Andrea Thompson, and I’m a writer, editor, and film critic who is a member of the Chicago Indie Critics and also the founder and director of the Film Girl Film Festival, which you can find more info about at filmgirlfilm.com! I have no intention of becoming any less obsessed with cinema, comics, or nerdom in general.

52 Films By Women: Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962)

52 Films By Women: Cléo From 5 to 7 (1962)

It’s strange to imagine a world unfamiliar with Agnès Varda, but it was still in the process of getting to know her when she made the 1962 masterpiece “Cléo from 5 to 7.” It was only her second feature, and it took a subject other films would stretch across days, weeks, months, or more, and compressed it into real time.

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Review: Don’t Go Looking for the Fire in Céline Sciamma’s New Film Petite Maman

Review: Don’t Go Looking for the Fire in Céline Sciamma’s New Film Petite Maman

Sci-fi noir Reminiscence is best left forgotten

Sci-fi noir Reminiscence is best left forgotten