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Cody Corrall

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Cody Corrall is a culture critic and editor based in Chicago. He is a member of the CFCA and has served on the jury for the Pentimenti Emerging Filmmakers Grant, the Chicago Digital Media Production Fund, as well as the screening committee for the Onion City Film Festival. They are also the co-host of Into the Twilight, a vampire-adjacent podcast.

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Mickey 17 (2025) 77% “As a testament to the human spirit, Mickey 17 is audacious and over the top in all the right ways. ” – Chicago Reader Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% “Craig is impossible to look away from; his bouts of desperation and all-consuming yearning command your attention at every turn in a way that feels both highly manicured yet totally disheveled. ” – Chicago Reader Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Benedetta (2021) 84% “The film is a biting examination of Catholicism with a sly sense of humor.” – Chicago Reader Dec 4, 2021 Full Review That Cold Dead Look in Your Eyes (2021) 86% “By the time the hallucinatory mystery reaches a climax, it's far too late to establish any semblance of emotional resonance.” – Chicago Reader Nov 24, 2021 Full Review Dead & Beautiful (2021) 42% “David Verbeek's Dead & Beautiful is a charming satire with some real teeth to it.” – Chicago Reader Nov 6, 2021 Full Review Don't Look Now (1973) 93% “Don't Look Now implements stylistic and oftentimes jarring editing techniques that alter the perception of what exactly is going on...” – Chicago Reader Oct 8, 2021 Full Review Perfect Blue (1997) 84% “Kon thoughtfully depicts a woman on the verge of madness as her squeaky-clean image devolves into the compromising and gruesome roles she plays in her acting career...” – Chicago Reader Oct 8, 2021 Full Review Ganja & Hess (1973) 93% “A seminal take on Blaxploitation and horror.” – Chicago Reader Oct 8, 2021 Full Review Trouble Every Day (2001) 57% “Denis treats this hunger the same as she does sex, all while commenting on, and flipping, normative gender power dynamics along the way...” – Chicago Reader Oct 8, 2021 Full Review Raw (2016) 93% “Raw is one of few films in the "female cannibal" canon, one that flips the power dynamic of women in horror so they are in control, rather than afraid of, their own carnal desires.” – Chicago Reader Oct 8, 2021 Full Review I'm Your Man (2021) 95% “Maria Schrader's film takes the intersection of love and technology to charming and unexpected places.” – Chicago Reader Oct 8, 2021 Full Review Titane (2021) 90% 4/4 “Titane will not give you the answers to your questions, and you're sure to have plenty by the film's end. But it's a hell of a ride across genre, shock, and awe...” – Chicago Reader Oct 8, 2021 Full Review Martyrs Lane (2021) 89% “Martyrs Lane can find itself in familiar territory from time to time, but the film is ultimately propelled by the promise of its compelling young performers.” – Chicago Reader Sep 20, 2021 Full Review Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021) 81% “Everybody's Talking About Jamie is a delight to watch from start to finish, especially when it champions queer joy, community, and those who paved the way.” – Chicago Reader Sep 17, 2021 Full Review The Night House (2020) 87% “The Night House is a strong argument for more films that let Rebecca Hall be a scream queen.” – Chicago Reader Aug 24, 2021 Full Review Ma Belle, My Beauty (2021) 76% “Ma Belle, My Beauty feels uninterested in its characters' motivations and their main source of conflict-how to manuever the complicated cogs of the polyamorous machine...” – Chicago Reader Aug 24, 2021 Full Review Homeroom (2021) 85% “To watch Homeroom is to be a fly on the wall at a pivotal moment of social change, where several intersections of activism all come to a head...” – Chicago Reader Aug 24, 2021 Full Review Pig (2021) 97% “Even through its various webs of tragedy, relentless ambition, and destruction for capital gain-Pig remarkably and overwhelmingly champions care and kindness.” – Chicago Reader Jul 15, 2021 Full Review Gunpowder Milkshake (2021) 60% 2.5/4 “The emotional highs and lows never really level out, and the special effects feel more schlocky and dated than overtly stylistic, but Gunpowder Milkshake manages to corral a dynamic roster of performers to have fun and blow shit up.” – Chicago Reader Jul 15, 2021 Full Review Cry Baby (1990) 73% “It's not Waters' most revolutionary or provocative work, but Cry-Baby effectively pokes fun at the sanitized Greases and Romeo and Juliets of the world for the queerdos and freaks alike” – CINE-FILE Jun 23, 2021 Full Review We Are Little Zombies (2019) 93% “Makoto Nagaisa has certainly proved the value of his unique, albeit intrusive, voice in this feature-and dares to challenge the standards of film form and execution as we know it.” – CINE-FILE Jun 23, 2021 Full Review And Then We Danced (2019) 93% “And Then We Danced doesn't simply yearn for a world that is "accepting" or "tolerant" of queer people-it dares for the world to see us for everything we are regardless of the hatred and violence that is thrown at us, especially globally.” – CINE-FILE Jun 23, 2021 Full Review Shirley (2020) 88% “Moss and Stuhlbarg's performances are showstopping-ranging over a striking spectrum from muted passivity to explosive chaos-and are reminiscent of gripping theater.” – CINE-FILE Jun 23, 2021 Full Review Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful (2020) 78% “The beauty of The Bad and The Beautiful is how it allows Newton's subjects-and the women who worked with him behind the scenes-to speak for themselves.” – CINE-FILE Jun 23, 2021 Full Review Black Bear (2020) 89% “Black Bear refuses to give you a simple answer to its own mystery-instead, it engulfs you in its surreal nightmare, wholly and without compromise.” – CINE-FILE Jun 23, 2021 Full Review
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