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Review: The Moth Diaries

“Whereas the female boarding school setting was once a hotbed of repression, latent lesbian tendencies, hysteria prone young ladies and fibromyalgia suffering matrons, it has now become a formula for excessive camp and unintentional laughs. Harron’s latest is only a representative example of all the reasons why this genre tends to be revamped in all the wrong ways.”
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“Whereas the female boarding school setting was once a hotbed of repression, latent lesbian tendencies, hysteria prone young ladies and fibromyalgia suffering matrons, it has now become a formula for excessive camp and unintentional laughs. Harron’s latest is only a representative example of all the reasons why this genre tends to be revamped in all the wrong ways.”

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Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2021: France (Bruno Dumont), Passing (Rebecca Hall) and Nightmare Alley (Guillermo Del Toro). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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