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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.

A Found Family Is on Borrowed Time in ‘Broker’

A Found Family Is on Borrowed Time in ‘Broker’

It was a dark and stormy night.

Many an unsettling tale has begun this way, and in Hirokazu Koreeda’s latest film Broker, rain is both a reflection of grim reality and a source of wistfulness, the kind that can only be birthed from a longing to cleanse a life of its past sins.

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Parental Fears Get a Plodding New Voice in ‘Skinamarink’

Parental Fears Get a Plodding New Voice in ‘Skinamarink’

M3GAN (2022) Review

M3GAN (2022) Review