Sundance 2024 Film Review: Layla ★★★1/2

"We're all born naked and the rest is drag", RuPaul has been pointing out for decades. British-Iraqi-Egyptian filmmaker Amrou Al-Kadhi's assured feature directorial and screenwriting debut Layla, which just premiered in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance, could be seen as an engaging narrative thesis on that playful, but astute observation. As the film... Continue Reading →

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