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Alisha Mughal

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Alisha Mughal is a film critic and journalist based in Toronto, Ontario. She approaches film from a feminist lens. Many movies make her cry. Find her @alishamgl

Reviews

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Hamnet (2025) 86% 8/10 EDIT “A film dealing in senses, it inspires in us the joys and pains of life and death.” – Exclaim! Nov 27, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% 5/10 EDIT “This is a film that is in love with theories, which, unfortunately and disappointingly, means that it doesn't have anything meaningful to say about a topic that deserves more nuance, belief and intention.” – Exclaim! Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Black Phone 2 (2025) 72% 5/10 EDIT “This sequel exists simply for the sake of being a sequel, not for the sake of the story. ” – Exclaim! Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Shayda (2023) 97% EDIT “A love letter to mothers everywhere who fight for the opportunity to thrive alongside their children. ” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Bye Bye Tiberias (2023) 100% EDIT “Iintimate and artful in equal measure.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Joyland (2022) 98% EDIT “One of those gems that, depending on where you are in your life, delivers a different message after every watch. ” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review The Night (2020) 81% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film brilliantly illustrates anger and horror’s ability to compound exponentially within relationships.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Golden Delicious (2022) 88% 3.5/5 EDIT “The patience of this film is its masterwork.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Leonor Will Never Die (2022) 91% 4.5/5 EDIT “Endlessly watchable for the giddy joy it takes in parody” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review And Still I Sing (2022) 4/5 EDIT “Mighty, weighty, important, and unmissable.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Mustache (2023) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Khan directs his own script with impeccable comedic timing that he shrewdly balances against substantial ideas of what it means to grow up as a South Asian kid in America. ” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review Q (2023) 100% 3.5/5 EDIT “The film offers us a glimpse of what it feels like to love with one’s whole being, and what it feels like to lose this all-consuming love.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review The Braid (2023) 3/5 EDIT “'The Braid' never reckons with or acknowledges the fact that the societal expectations this film concerns itself with uniquely impact each of the women at its core with an uneven pressure.” – The Asian Cut Aug 2, 2025 Full Review The Sales Girl (2022) 100% 4/5 EDIT “A treasure for the ways in which it beautifully complicates the coming-of-age tale, expanding its trite ways and leaving it free of confines because it understands that nobody ever stops growing.” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Dìdi (2024) 96% 3.5/5 EDIT “A challenging film that is exceedingly worthwhile for the way in which it represents a kind of teen we don’t often get.” – The Asian Cut Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% 4/5 EDIT “'Presence' depicts an endless and impossible task, and does so with the grace of a sonnet.” – The Asian Cut Jul 23, 2025 Full Review Best Wishes to All (2024) 77% 6/10 EDIT “Even as 'Best Wishes to All' falls short of greatness, Shimotsu still crafts a compelling watch by turning us both inward and outward, recalling Le Guin's brilliant story, forcing us to reckon with our own culpability in the world's machinations.” – Exclaim! Jun 17, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% 5/10 EDIT “While Song critiques treating partnerships like business deals, she also leaves the behaviour unchallenged throughout the film.” – Exclaim! Jun 13, 2025 Full Review Heart Eyes (2025) 78% 8/10 EDIT “A fun and breezy good time, maniacally twirling at the crossroads of slasher and rom-com.” – Exclaim! Mar 4, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 85% 7/10 EDIT “A visual masterpiece and a worthy successor to Murnau's legacy,” – Exclaim! Jan 8, 2025 Full Review Gülizar (2024) 8/10 EDIT “A masterfully crafted debut, Gülizar is unafraid to look you in the eye as it asks you to limn the contours of hope itself. ” – Film Daze Nov 18, 2024 Full Review We Live in Time (2024) 79% 6/10 EDIT “As it is framed as a story about a couple, 'We Live in Time' is an uneven endeavor that feels as though it’s a gender-swapped take on 'A Walk to Remember.'” – Film Daze Nov 18, 2024 Full Review Santosh (2024) 100% 9/10 EDIT “Santosh’s brilliance is that it makes us feel culpable — it first has us feel persuaded by the easiness of prejudice, only to afterwards have us see that we have been beguiled.” – Film Daze Nov 18, 2024 Full Review Heretic (2024) 90% 7/10 EDIT “This film works as a jubilantly irreverent exploration of a new breed of villain, and as such, it does an injustice to the killer’s victims.” – Film Daze Nov 18, 2024 Full Review The Girl With the Needle (2024) 92% 8/10 EDIT “The Girl with the Needle is a lush playground of and for monstrous women, celebrating them by allowing them to roam audaciously, to become little insatiate horrors as they do what feels right, even if for a moment.” – Film Daze Nov 18, 2024 Full Review
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