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Most of the movie The Last Sunrise (2026) was absolutely lost on me because I was too busy being irate about how they chose to depict chronic illness and a sick person’s bodily autonomy. Were there genetically blessed faces? Yes. Did things occur in naturally blessed places? Absolutely. Was there a whole romance almost thwarted …

If I’m being entirely honest, sometimes I spend a lot of time casting about for something to watch that perfectly matches the ferocity and pitch of my internal, but barely contained, guttural anger and anguish about the ongoing state of affairs for women and girls. Every day, for example, it feels like the world is …

Admittedly, I let my own prejudices get in the way of watching My Old Ass (2024) for a long-ass time. I generally groan and roll my eyes when movies use a drug trip as the whole premise for a big awakening or whatever. I don’t know, like listening to someone describe their dreams, watching someone’s …

The real lynchpin in Sterling Point (2026)—the swirling, messy, engrossing, Canadian coming-of-age series that centers both on tenderly portrayed rites of girlhood passage and really wrenching moments of adolescent trauma—is that the all the adults fall somewhere between useless twits and absolute assholes. This isn’t meant to be tongue-in-cheek. You really need their horrifi...