drama
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Ida
Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska) is an 18 year old orphan about to become a nun in 1960s Poland. At...
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Gloria
It’s been over a year since Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria wowed festival goers at the 2013 Berlinale, where it...
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U Want Me 2 Kill Him?
If you were asked to do something unthinkable and told that one act would benefit a great number of people,...
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SFIFF57: The Double, Heaven Adores You, Of Horses & Men, Impossible Light
In Submarine director Richard Ayoade’s stylish Dostoyevsky adaptation The Double, Jesse Eisenberg impresses yet again in a dual performance as...
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Hot Docs 2014: I Am Big Bird, Private Violence, Mateo, Portrait of Jason
I Am Big Bird I Am Big Bird is, not surprisingly, one of the more popular titles at...
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Locke
Nowadays, superheroes punching each other in the face and flipping over cars is the hottest ticket in Hollywood. Steven...
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Fading Gigolo
After an evocative opening credit sequence featuring warm, grainy 8mm footage of old buildings in New York City...
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Ilo Ilo
Singapore born director Anthony Chen makes an impressive feature debut with Ilo Ilo, which not only received the...
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Hot Docs 2014: Actress, The Joe Show, E-Team
Actress Robert Greene finds inspiration for his latest documentary in his next-door neighbour Brandy Burre. Burre was an...
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Hot Docs 2014: The Overnighters, Watchers of the Sky, The Creator of the Jungle
Now that I’ve seen over a dozen of Hot Docs’ selections so far, I can see patterns begin...
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Hateship Loveship
2013 was the year for Saturday Night Live alums to break out of their comedic roles to star...
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Hot Docs 2014: Joy of Man’s Desiring, Harmontown, No Lullaby, Before The Last Curtain Falls
With almost 200 documentaries playing at Hot Docs, the amount of variety on display is quite staggering. Social...
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Only Lovers Left Alive
You couldn’t ask for two actors better suited to play a couple of sharp-featured, hipster vampire lovers than...
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Under the Skin
Jonathan Glazer’s otherworldly Under the Skin feels somehow…forbidden. Hyper-artistic movies like this are a rare species, unwelcome in the tentpole Hollywood...
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The Reunion
Anna Odell’s The Reunion is split into two distinct halves, each half appearing to be directly inspired by...