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Ren Jender

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Biography:

Queer, feminist writer-performer/producer making a film, freelances for Voice Media (which syndicates to LA Weekly, Miami New Times etc.) Slate, INTO, SYFY and the late lamented The Toast.

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Sirens (2022) 98% A “If someone had told me one of my favorite films from Sundance would be about a thrash metal band in Lebanon, I wouldn’t have believed them. But Rita Baghdadi’s Sirens—executive produced in part by Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne—is one of the rare...” – INTO Jan 10, 2023 Full Review Nothing Compares (2022) 99% A- “Nothing Compares, Kathryn Ferguson’s stunning documentary on the rapid rise and fall from worldwide fame of Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor, comes at an auspicious time. We’re living in a moment where women singers who were previously vilified by...” – INTO Jan 10, 2023 Full Review Honey Boy (2019) 95% “Har'el... continues the use of surreal imagery that made her documentaries so striking and emotionally resonant.” – NPR Nov 7, 2019 Full Review Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (2019) 89% “The film has Ronstadt's full cooperation, including her funny, charming narration throughout.” – NPR Sep 5, 2019 Full Review Pina (2011) 95% “[Pina] capture, in original and striking ways, the beauty and mystery of [Pina] Bausch's work by bringing us right inside of it.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review How to Survive a Plague (2012) 98% “One of the most moving scenes in the film is close to the end when we see the survivors in a series of long, silent close-ups, as they are now... jowls, grey hair and aging itself becomes a triumph, as it rarely is on American movie screens.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) 88% “Sitting through three hours in a movie theater and focusing on one woman's life (especially a queer woman's) was a relief and something I could use a lot more of.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review The Punk Singer (2013) 91% “Sini Anderson's The Punk Singer is all about music and politics: feminism and women, while focusing on one person, Kathleen Hanna, formerly of the bands Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and current front-woman of The Julie Ruin.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) 92% “Perhaps the most infuriating thing about Inside Llewyn Davis is how rabidly (and anachronistically) apolitical it is.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review The Great Beauty (2013) 91% “The Great Beauty is about a bored, jaded man but doesn't leave its audience bored or jaded which is itself an achievement.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Philomena (2013) 91% “Philomena is another Oscar-nominated film which features an older woman, and it left me frustrated...” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Nebraska (2013) 90% “I went into Nebraska, hopeful but cautious. But in this film [Alexander] Payne seems to be going not sideways, but backwards.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) 99% “The Oscar-nominated documentary 20 Feet From Stardom attempts to right this injustice by focusing on [Merry] Clayton and a number of other backup singers whose voices we know, but whose names we often do not.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Stranger by the Lake (2013) 94% “Distributors seem not to realize that an explicit film about male cruising has the potential to attract an audience beyond just gay men: many women, straight and queer, are curious about the type of anonymous, repercussion-free sex shown in the film.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Moms Mabley: I Got Somethin' to Tell You (2013) “The reason to see the film is not for the interviews with bleary-eyed Famous People Who Saw Mabley Perform Live or even the interviews with comedians whose work she influenced, but to see Mabley's work itself.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Anita (2013) 82% “In spite of politicians and courts still explicitly or implicitly labeling women as liars when they seek justice against powerful men, we need to see at least one happy ending to give the rest of us the fortitude to continue fighting.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 14, 2019 Full Review In a World ... (2013) 92% “Many of the contrivances seem like placeholders in the script, meant to be replaced with better thought out action later on, but the movie still contains some truths that don't make their way into films directed and written by men.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Full Review Short Term 12 (2013) 98% “Short Term 12 gets right for much of the film, what so many other films about human services get wrong.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Full Review Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013) 98% “In the same way that disabled and older people shouldn't be called "inspiring" just for living their lives... the film shows us that the effects of aging for [Elaine] Stritch aren't tragic but just inconveniences and obstacles for her to work around.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Full Review The Long Goodbye (1973) 95% “[Leigh] Brackett's script and particularly [Elliott] Gould's performance are like a mashup of the best parts of 1930s and 40s screwball comedies and detective movies from the same era with 70s realism thrown in.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Full Review Under the Skin (2013) 83% “The problem is: Johansson's character knows, from the start of the film how to be, by all appearances, a human woman, and the filmmakers never seem curious how she learned to do so.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Full Review Freeway (1996) 76% “Freeway is far from a perfect film but well worth seeing, even for those who don't count themselves as fans of Witherspoon.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Full Review Belle (2013) 84% “Belle has a great lead performance from a Black actress in a Black woman director's film of a Black woman's script about a Black woman in European history (who wasn't a slave): an opportunity that doesn't come very often for audiences.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Full Review I Believe in Unicorns (2014) 85% “[Leah] Meyerhoff explained how difficult casting Davina was and how the filmmaking team went through hundreds of actresses before they found Dyer. I wish this writer-director had put that same effort into writing a coherent script for her talented actors.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Full Review Palo Alto (2013) 70% “Disaffected, wealthy young people aren't new subjects for a film, but perhaps because [Gia] Coppola is not far from the age (and background) of her characters some of the details resonate.” – Bitch Flicks Mar 13, 2019 Full Review
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