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The prison movie genre brings life’s most fundamental struggles to the fore, as characters are forced to confront isolation, subjugation, and the inhumanity of having their agency stripped away. From ...

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TIFF: Cal McMau's film convincingly makes its point that prison violence is brutal and senseless, but doesn't do enough to justify making us watch copious amounts of it. But prisons are filled with ...

Prison is a scary place. Even in the movies, it's the kind of place that is impossible to romanticize, and Hollywood can do that with a lot of other terrible places. Prisons are also a place where ...