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The Broken Circle Breakdown
C.J. Prince | November 22, 2013A major success in its home country of Belgium (and the country's submission for Best Foreign Film at...
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Fill the Void
Ananda Dillon | November 20, 2013Turning 18 means different things in different cultures, but almost every culture agrees it’s an age of adulthood. ...
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Humano
Dustin Jansick | November 19, 2013With such a philosophical subject as trying to discover the reason for our existence, Humano is indeed as...
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Bastards
C.J. Prince | November 12, 2013No matter what your opinion is on Claire Denis‘ films (full disclosure: I’m not the biggest fan of...
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
Dustin Jansick | October 31, 2013Was I a little upset that I did not catch Blue Is the Warmest Color while at the...
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On the Job
Bernard Boo | September 26, 2013It’s genius in a wicked kind of way, really. Hire a hitman who’s already in prison. Get him...
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Populaire
Bernard Boo | September 10, 2013Set in late ’50s Paris, Populaire is a loving throwback to the saccharine rom-coms of that decade, dipped...
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Il Futuro
Dustin Jansick | September 9, 2013Alicia Scherson’s Il Futuro (The Future) is an adaptation of a Chilean novel by Roberto Bolano about two...
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Manakamana (TIFF review)
C.J. Prince | September 7, 2013On paper, the description of Manakamana will have most people running in the opposite direction. Directors Stephanie Spray...
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Stranger by the Lake
Jansen Aui | September 3, 2013Never leaving the rural French lakeside setting on which it opens, Alain Guiraudie’s new film Stranger by the...
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The Patience Stone
Bernard Boo | August 27, 2013Like an intoxicating, slow-moving swirl of deep colors and even deeper emotions, Afghani filmmaker and novelist Atiq Rahimi’s...
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Thérèse
Dustin Jansick | August 26, 2013Premiering as the Closing Night film at the Cannes film festival last year was Claude Miller’s final film...
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The Past
Jansen Aui | August 16, 2013For many (myself included), the work of Iranian director Asghar Farhadi was relatively unfamiliar before a little film...
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Drug War
C.J. Prince | August 9, 2013After a brief journey into romantic comedies and dramas, Johnnie To returns to the genre he knows best...
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The Attack (SFJFF Review)
Bernard Boo | August 6, 2013Though set in the trenches of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Ziad Doueiri’s mystery-thriller The Attack operates predominantly on an...