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Festivals (10 posts found)
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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TIFF Review: ‘Visitors’ Is Beautiful But Empty
Adriana Floridia reviews VISITORS from the Toronto International Film Festival.
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TIFF Capsule Reviews: ‘A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness’ & ‘Night Moves’
Jake Cole reviews NIGHT MOVES and A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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TIFF Review: Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto Shine In ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
Anna Tatarska reviews DALLAS BUYERS CLUB.
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Daily TIFF Dispatch: A 911 Phone Call, A Grumpy Press Corps, and Hot Weather
As TIFF reached its official tipping point, things have taken a weird turn...much of it due to the press gathered to cover the films presented.
As you might have already heard by now, an online critic (Alex Billington of FirstShowing.net) was in a press &am...
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TIFF Review: Ned Benson’s Great Debut, ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her’
Perspective is probably the most important aspect of storytelling; the story completely changes depending on whose point of view we are inclined to side with. Most films are told from one person’s perspective, and some attempt to allow us to see the events unf...
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TIFF Review: Binoche and Owen Form a Great Onscreen Bond in ‘Words and Pictures’
Anna Tatarska reviews 'Words and Pictures' from the Toronto International Film Festival.
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TIFF Capsule Reviews: ‘Horns’ and ‘Til Madness Do Us Part’
Reviews of Alexandre Aja's 'Horns and Wang Bing's ''Til Madness Do Us Part.'
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