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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.

Review: Dan Stevens Is an Android Dreamboat in I’m Your Man

Review: Dan Stevens Is an Android Dreamboat in I’m Your Man

Many films are outright desperate to speak to our times, but Maria Schrader’s Berlin-set sci-fi romcom I’m Your Man could genuinely lay claim to that and more. It’s certainly very much of our current moment, as it depicts an unsettlingly possible near future, covering the type of ground Spike Jonze couldn’t even begin to imagine in Her.

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Review: Gaslighting Is Institutional in Mélanie Laurent’s The Mad Women’s Ball

Review: Gaslighting Is Institutional in Mélanie Laurent’s The Mad Women’s Ball

Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: The Electrical Life of Louis Wain