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Tara Judah

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As seen in: BFI, Senses of Cinema, The Guardian, Sight & Sound, Screen Daily, WOW24/7, Overland, desistfilm.com
full time libra & film enthusiast. 🌛
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“One thing this endlessly prurient film never shows is female sexual pleasure”: Showgirls reviewed in 1996

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By Claire I. Monk, Adam Nayman Verified, Tara Judah Verified, Jessica Kiang
| Sight & Sound Verified
When Paul Verhoeven’s divisive Vegas melodrama first arrived in UK cinemas, critic Claire Monk was unconvinced by its relentless ‘tits-in-your-face’ voyeurism and flawed ideas about women’s sexual ‘power’. 9 June 2025 As is clear from the plot summary alone, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas’s first collaboration since Basic Instinct (1992) is driven by preoccupations other than psychological and narrative credibility.
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The Encampments review

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By Tara Judah Verified, Adam Nayman Verified, Francesca Steele Verified, Nicolas Rapold Verified
| Sight & Sound Verified
The Encampments uses the natural momentum of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University in New York as its structural spine. What began with 50 students pitching tents in the campus’s designated protest zone soon became a national and international movement of students occupying campus lawns, demanding university administrations divest from Israel and weapons manufacturing.
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Ballerina review: bloody but bloodless

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By Adam Nayman Verified, Tara Judah Verified, Francesca Steele Verified, Nicolas Rapold Verified
| Sight & Sound Verified
“Fight like a girl,” the heroine of Ballerina is instructed. Apparently, taken to its logical conclusion (to the extent that any movie set in the John Wick universe can be said to have a logical conclusion) this imperative means duelling with flamethrowers and using ice skates like bayonets, impressively inventive bits of carnage in a movie whose body count is in triple digits before the end of the first act.
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