Sadie Cho

In her review of Fiona Obertinca’s “Dandelion” (2025), Assistant Managing Editor Sadie Cho explores how the short film represents finding community as a queer teenager in a historically accurate manner and meaningfully deviates from mainstream queer movies by depicting queer joy.

In her mise-en-scène of Jane Schoenbrun’s I Saw the TV Glow (2024), Sadie Cho analyzes how a variety of details in Owen’s monologue–his wording, the setting, the music, and the camera angles–exemplify his immaturity, despite the fact that he appears to have a normal adult life. This scene contributes to the film’s larger message that risk-taking is necessary to not just age, but truly mature as a person.

In her review of Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia (2025), Sadie Cho explores how the American remake of Save the Green Planet! (2003) uses a female instead of a male protagonist to question the ethics of enacting hostility towards a harmful healthcare CEO when said hostility is partly motivated by misogyny and incel ideology.