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Roulette
To say Roulette is dark film would be an understatement. The film holds nothing back as it shows...
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Bastards
No matter what your opinion is on Claire Denis‘ films (full disclosure: I’m not the biggest fan of...
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Abracadabra
Lucile Desamory’s Abracadabra as a film seems to evade simple classification. To call it art house meets surrealist...
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Haunter
It doesn’t take very long for Vincenzo Natali‘s Haunter to get to the point. What starts out as...
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Mr. Nobody
Mr. Nobody is proof that just having all the right ingredients does not automatically make it a great...
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All Is Lost
All is Lost reveals the true essence of who Robert Redford is as an actor as much as any...
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Gravity
Certainly no sci-fi film, and packed with more adrenaline than the average action film, it’s impossible not to...
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Escape From Tomorrow
First time filmmaker Randy Moore certainly made a name for himself when Escape from Tomorrow first premiered nearly...
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Machete Kills
When approaching my critique of Machete Kills—Robert Rodriguez‘s second entry into the eponymous character’s bloody B-movie saga that started...
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On the Job
It’s genius in a wicked kind of way, really. Hire a hitman who’s already in prison. Get him...
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Prisoners
Denis Villeneuve, the French-Canadian director of Polytechnique and Incendies, has seemingly hit the jackpot with his English language...
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Gravity
Full disclosure: I personally do not like 3D movies, I feel that they are distracting to the true...
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A Field in England (TIFF Review)
Over the last five years, Ben Wheatley has shown himself to be someone hard to pin down. His...
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Wasteland
Rowan Athale attempts to breathe some new life into the heist genre by peppering it with dry British...
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Drug War
After a brief journey into romantic comedies and dramas, Johnnie To returns to the genre he knows best...