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TIFF Dispatch #3: “99 Homes”, “The Duke of Burgundy”, and “Phoenix”
99 Homes - The American home foreclosure crisis, the subject of Ramin Bahrani’s latest film, is the stuff of Michael Moore-style documentaries. The film observes various middle-class families fighting tooth and nail to hold onto their family homes, only to be ...
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TIFF Review: “Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet”
One of the more pleasant surprises of TIFF 2014, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet combines musings on life with incredible visuals. A passion project from producer Salma Hayek, the film adapts the poetry of Lebanese artist, poet, and writer Kahlil Gibran in a serie...
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TIFF Dispatch #2: “Love & Mercy”, “Eden”, and “Tokyo Tribe”
Love & Mercy, Bill Pohlad’s biopic about musical genius Brian Wilson is an empathetic but trite examination of the Beach Boy’s life, structured like a temporal see-saw occupying two specific periods. There’s the mid 1960s, when Wilson (Paul Dano) brainstor...
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TIFF Review: “Hungry Hearts”
With a knife in hand and her husband breathing over her neck inside their kitchen, Mina (Alba Rohrwacher) tells Jude (Adam Driver) that she feels like he's controlling her. They have a child together, but to say that her pregnancy was an act of union would be ...
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TIFF Dispatch #1: “Foxcatcher”, “Clouds of Sils Maria”, and “Maps to the Stars”
So many films—regardless of their genre or origin—deal with the psychology of interpersonal discord that it’s scarcely worth mentioning them as some kind of classifiable phenomenon. But when you watch a variety of films that have little to do with each other—f...
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Wrapping Up the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival
With the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival coming to a close, we put together a small, but hopefully helpful overview of what may be the greatest film festival in North America. Below four of our writers who attended the festival rattle of a pair of the...
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‘August: Osage County’ Is Funny, Moving and Superbly Performed
I flew to Toronto all the way from Poland. And after the screening of August: Osage County I knew that if I had gone there just for this one film, it would still have been worth it. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning Tracy Letts' play, the film is a piercingly in...
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TIFF Review: ‘Kill Your Darlings’
Our review of KILL YOUR DARLINGS, starring Daniel Radcliffe. From the Toronto International Film Festival.
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TIFF Review: Jonathan Glazer’s Lurid ‘Under the Skin’ Evokes A Sense of Loss
A valid alternative title for Jonathan Glazer’s belated return to feature filmmaking after 2004’s Birth could have been The Woman Who Fell to Earth. Nicolas Roeg’s 1976 Bowie vehicle The Man Who Fell to Earth presented an alien who came to Earth to save its pe...
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TIFF Review: ‘Oculus’ Is Scary Storytelling Gone Terribly Flat
Mirrors have often been the subjects of horror films; there has always been something eerie about our own reflection and interpretation of ourselves. Mike Flanagan’s Oculus tries to take this idea of perception and makes for a game of tricks and illusions that...
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