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Lilting
Almost every film review I have written has opened with an introduction relating to the film at hand,...
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Two Night Stand
While tales of the war zone that is online dating in our modern era are timely, the release...
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Starred Up
Fans of the terrific cult British teen drama Skins have long suspected that it was only a matter...
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Laggies (TIFF Review)
Coming off a disappointing previous film (Touchy Feely), director Lynn Shelton returns with Laggies to what she does best...
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20,000 Days on Earth
Nick Cave, a musician, songwriter, author, and sometime actor, whose music seems to polarize listeners into love or...
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The Strange Color of Your Body’s Tears
After decades of watching movies, I never thought I would discover a genre I had never heard of...
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Honeymoon
Newlywed life is fraught with difficulty as adjusting to life with someone else can make for plenty of...
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TIFF 2014: Whiplash
Whiplash has been one of the biggest hits on the festival circuit so far this year, getting rave...
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TIFF 2014: Cub
Jonas Govaerts’ Cub feels all too familiar, a significant problem given its promising concept and imagery. On a...
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TIFF 2014: The Keeping Room
Set in the American South in 1865, two rogue Union soldiers (Sam Worthington and Kyle Soller) scout and...
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They Have Escaped (TIFF Review)
Finnish filmmaker J.-P. Valkeapää comes up with a wild take on a boy-meets-girl story in They Have Escaped,...
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TIFF 2014: Backcountry
Opening with the camera tracking towards an unseen but, based on the sound design, grisly sight, Backcountry immediately foreshadows...
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TIFF 2014: Meet Me in Montenegro
It’s been seven years since Alex Holdridge directed the Independent Spirit Award winning film In Search of a...
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The New Girlfriend (TIFF Review)
If there’s anything we’ve learned from François Ozon‘s past work it’s this: The man is unafraid to explore...
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Kelly & Cal
Juliette Lewis is an actress who seems to get relegated to supporting roles. It makes sense though. There...