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Festivals (10 posts found)
AFI Fest Review: ‘Her’
I've loved all of Spike Jonze's work, but I was incredibly skeptical of Her. What looked like a story about a man falling in love with Siri, complete with him spinning in romantic circles with his phone, just seemed like too much. It was a rotten attitude to b...
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AFI Fest Review: ‘Nothing Bad Can Happen’
The original German title of Nothing Bad Can Happen is Tore Tanzt, or "Tore Dances." Anyone who watches the trailer for the film will recognize that the new title is meant as bitterly ironic. This is a story about many, many bad things happening. But while Tor...
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AFI Fest Review: ‘The Congress’
There's a moment in Ari Folman's previous film, the animated Invasion of Lebanon documentary Waltz With Bashir, that pulls you back to reality in an emotionally devastating fashion. After experiencing the entirety of the film's disturbing events through Folman...
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AFI Fest Review: ‘Closed Curtain’
Anyone who criticizes Jafar Panahi for retreading themes in his films at this juncture of his career is kind of an asshole. The man is under the thumb of a dictatorship and forbidden from making movies. What else is he going to muse on with his films (which he...
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AFI Fest Review: ‘The Sacrament’
A new wave of horror has come in the form of "mumblegore," and I've not yet drunk its kool-aid (that phrase is an appropriate one to use in a review for this film, as you'll come to understand in a moment). I get the idea of using "realistic" verbal patter and...
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AFI Fest Review: ‘The Unknown Known’
Errol Morris' new film focuses revolves around a captivating interview with Donald Rumsfeld.
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AFI Fest Review: ‘The Wind Rises’
Hayao Miyazaki's supposedly final film isn't great, but it's a fitting end to an astonishing career.
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AFI Fest Review: ‘Blue Ruin’
Dwight (Macon Blair) is a beach bum, spending his days scrounging recyclables on the Virginia coast and his nights in a gruesome 1990 Pontiac Bonneville. But when he learns that the man who murdered his parents has been released from prison, he embarks on a ro...
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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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