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  Review by Sean Gilman ★★★★ 1

  Maybe the funniest movie about making a movie since La ultima pelicula, if not Living in Oblivion. Not subtle at all, with so many men (led by a very funny Adam Nayman) telling the poor director what's wrong with her shambolic movie about a group of seven young women who hang out and try to join the (Canadian) army together. But Jennifer Hardy is great as the frustrated director in the frame story and the film within the film is funny and weird, even as it disintegrates under a pile of questionable notes.

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  Review by Mallory Andrews ★★★

  Release the Passchendaele cut

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  Review by Corey Atad

  It’d be easy to call this movie a failure, or a mess, but it’s too endearing and interesting an experiment to leave it there. There are brilliantly funny moments. Some searing ones. Even a moving, heartfelt dance sequence. Would that every messy failure was this genuine, this full of heart.

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  Review by Daniela ★★★½

  Me fascinó ver esto. 

  No sabía que era tan satírica. Hicieron algo muy inteligente, sobre todo muy interesante, si todos viéramos la película que René hizo para su tesis, pensaríamos lo mismo que todos le dicen. Es un intento de feature hecho por una estudiante, es amateur, pero logra que la veamos a través de los ojos de la protagonista, y ves el potencial, ves lo que ella desea que los otros vean. 🥺 Es increíble. Está cagadísima. Vi un Q&A y casi toda es improvisada. Qué cabron. 

  Es curioso que la película de René tenga tantas protagonistas y esta película es una sola prota, y es un poco sobre esa soledad que se siente cuando quieres mostrar tu arte y al mismo tiempo te da vergüenza. Qué bonita experiencia y qué padre que una película así existe.

  Hay algo muy bello en el arte producido por “perdedores” no hay estructura, solo hay corazón <3

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  Review by Clare O'Brien ★★½

  oh boyyyy this movie hit too close to home lol

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  Review by aspekt erebus ★★★★★ 2

  sublime

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  Review by bens ★★★½

  I don't know what made me decide, sight unseen, to track this down, but I'm so glad I did. It's a movie about talent, or, rather, not having it. I went to an acting conservatory in college, so on a fundamental level the bits of realism in here hum along with things that I've known in just a brutal way, but I think there's more to why I liked this. I think real material conditions have created a really dark economy of self-expression. The urge and the itch to enter yourself into the Churn of Visibility is immense. And most art kinda just deals with that level: the magnetism, the addiction, the vanity, just the virtues and ethics of the…

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  Review by Enoch Mailangi ★★★★

  This was film validating in a depressive way.

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  Review by Sydney Boniface ★★½

  Ryerson IMA #4lyfe

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  Review by Lawrence Garcia ★★★½

  Excerpted from a long-ish report on the 3rd edition of Future//Present at VIFF:

  The vaunted highlight of the 2018 program, though—and exemplary of what could be considered the F//P ethos—is Spice It Up, a film that through DIY ingenuity and resourcefulness takes a desire to create cinema independent from established norms as its very subject and process. As such, it follows Rene (Jennifer Hardy), a film student in Toronto attempting to complete her thesis project, the title film—an absurdist comedy about seven teenage girls who fail out of high school and then attempt to enlist in the Canadian army. Simply, but effectively, the filmmakers (Calvin Thomas, Yonah Lewis and Lev Lewis, the latter making his second appearance in the program…

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  Review by Talz Lu Mango ★★★

  Same

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  Review by khanh ★★★★½

  !!!!!!!!!! i want to see the cut they made that is the 2.5 hour long go pro only footage