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Directed By Women: Love Lies Bleeding (2024)
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Directed By Women: Love Lies Bleeding (2024)

A thrillingly twisted, subversive crime tale of blood, love, and murder that embraces the beautifully surrealist absurdity of letting your freak flags fly with a lover who sees the beauty in your darkest darkness, it’s one of the best A24 thrillers I’ve seen, and will likely have a place on my best films of 2024.

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Directed By Women: Someone Great (2019)
Grace Pisula Grace Pisula

Directed By Women: Someone Great (2019)

Rodriguez plays Jenny, a New Yorker who is at multiple crossroads in her life - she’s turning 30, about to leave the city she loves, and thus her bffs Blair (Brittany Snow) and Erin (DeWanda Wise) for her dream job at Rolling Stone in San Francisco. But the catalyst for this one last hurrah is her breakup with her boyfriend of nine years, Nate (LaKeith Stanfield).

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