Film Criticism
In the Mood Magazine
Oceans of Time: On Bram Stoker's Dracula
Editor’s Note
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Are You Still Watching? on Substack
On Mother Mary and the pleasures and pitfalls of pop star cinema - with Sennah Yee
TIFF Report - 2025, 2023
Scary Movie: On Ghostface and Scream
Barbenheimer Report – with Sennah Yee
Southland Tales vs. Don’t Look Up – with Sennah Yee
Moulin Rouge vs. Eyes Wide Shut – with Sennah Yee
Tales From The Crypt vs. The Holiday – with Sennah Yee
Death Becomes Her and Melancholia vs. Marnie – with Sennah Yee
Downtime
A Woman Is In Trouble In Max Ophüls' Modest Noir Masterpiece
On Arnaud Depleschin‘s My Sex Life... Or How I Got Into the Argument
Reverse Shot
Exit the Void: A Review of Barbie
Lost in the Sauce: A review of Zola
Distant Shores: maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore
Sight and Sound
Between Two Worlds: Juliette Binoche goes down and covert as a ferry cleaner
Women Talking Review
Paper Girls: well-drawn, well-acted characters can’t save this muddled time-travel series
Copilot is a tragic romance set in the shadow of 9/11
Nowhere Special Review: A Dying Man’s Life
Two of Us Review: A Hidden Romance
Cinema Scope
TIFF 2023 Coverage
TIFF 2021 Coverage
Can’t Get You Out of My Head: Dasha Nekrasova and The Scary of Sixty-First
Review of A Glitch in the Matrix
Mubi Notebook
Thoughts on Working Women
Takashi Miike’s Audition in One Shot
The Film Stage
Isabelle Huppert on How Every Performance Is Like Acting for the First Time
Review of No Hard Feelings
Review of Hold Me Tight
Review of Blue Bayou
Review of M. Night Shyamalan’s Old
Review of Black Widow
Review of Cruella: A Neutered Origin Story
Next Magazine
Review of Immaculate
Review of French Girl
Review of Dune Part Two
Review of Poor Things
Review of Priscilla
Review of Oppenheimer
Review of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
Summer on Screen preview
In the Mood Recommendation Generator
Every Man For Himself - In the Mood Recommendation Generator (2020)
(Click through “Sad” and “Out of Sorts”)
Match Factory Girl - In the Mood Recommendation Generator (2020)
(Click through “Anxious” and “Alienated”)
Film review samples
Leste Magazine
The Fuck of the Century is a triannual column on cinematic sex scenes published in Leste Magazine. Gabrielle Marceau, Sennah Yee discuss sex scenes with a guest writer, filmmaker, artist, or cinephile. www.leste.com
Leste Magazine Issue 10 - FOTC and special guest Willow Catelyn Maclay discuss scenes of sex, violence, love, and intimacy in the films Wild at Heart (1990), Bound (1996), and Lingua Franca (2019).
Leste Magazine Issue 9 - FOTC and special guest Sofia Banzhaf examine early sexual awakenings in animated Disney films including The Sword in the Stone (1963), Robin Hood (1973), Aladdin (1992), and more.
Leste Magazine Issue 8 - FOTC and special guest Nicole Richardson examine space, intimacy, and power structures in sex work depicted in Young & Beautiful (2013), Tangerine (2015), and the season 1 finales of The Girlfriend Experience (2016) and The Deuce (2017).
Leste Magazine Issue 7 - FOTC and special guest Fan Wu look for threads of tenderness in the films Sauvage (2018), God’s Own Country (2017), Call me by Your Name (2017), and Attenberg (2010).
Leste Magazine Issue 6 - Gabrielle Marceau and Sennah Yee talk about favourite, formative, and least favourite movie/TV sex scenes.
The Fuck of the Century
Birds of Prey: Hedren, Hitchcock, and Hollywood (2017)
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: ARCADE FIRE/ EVERYTHING NOW (2017)
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: THE STROKES/ THREAT OF JOY (2017)
When I Think About Me I Touch Myself (2016)
Give Me Shelter: A Bigger Splash (2016)
BEFORE ETHAN HAWKE (2016)
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: CHARLI XCX/ VROOM VROOM (2016)
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: SONIC YOUTH/ KOOL THING (2016)
From a Review of the Martian (2016)
Joy and the Noxious Male Genius (2016)
Notes on Miss You Already (2016)
10 Things I Remember About You (2016)
VIDEO OF THE WEEK: GWEN STEFANI/ MAKE ME LIKE YOU (2016)
From a Review of Mommy (2016)
Video of the Week: Joanna Newsom/ Sapokanikan (2016)
Video of the Week: Selena Gomez/ Good for You (2016)