Contributions from Jenna Mahale | Little White Lies

Contributor Jenna Mahale

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Review

Good Fortune review – a mostly unremarkable body-swap comedy

by Jenna Mahale

Aziz Ansari writes, directs and stars in this frothy, big studio concoction of little substance and even less style.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Toronto Film Festival

Blue Heron – first-look review

by Jenna Mahale

Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a formally adventurous, touching portrait of childhood.
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Toronto Film Festival

Hamlet – first-look review

by Jenna Mahale

Aneil Karia’s Hamlet, starring Riz Ahmed as the doomed prince, is an occasionally beautiful but largely inert exercise.
Review

All We Imagine as Light review – this one is for the lover girls

by Jenna Mahale

Payal Kapadia’s first fiction feature is a gorgeous romance concerning the lives of two contrasting nurses in present-day Mumbai.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Festivals

All We Imagine as Light – first-look review

by Jenna Mahale

Payal Kapadia’s first fiction feature is a gorgeous romance, concerning the lives of two contrasting nurses in present-day Mumbai.
Festivals

A new film explores New York’s Chinatown through an unlikely heroine

by Jenna Mahale

Writer/​director Sasie Sealy discusses the making of her ​“risky” debut feature, Lucky Grandma.

Jawline director Liza Mandelup on the alienation of Gen Z

by Jenna Mahale

The award-winning filmmaker on the intricacies of influencer culture and the emotional economy of the internet.

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