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in ReviewsFilm Review: ‘No Exit’ Is a Pit Stop You May Want to Make
A recovering drug addict named Darby Thorne (Havana Rose Liu) makes a desperate run from her rehab center in order to see her sickly mother who has suffered a brain aneurysm. The hasty escape and some bad weather ends up trapping her in a situation that makes her question if it was right call. That’s […] More
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TIFF Film Review: ‘Compartment No. 6’ Is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
Sometimes all you need to make an incredible movie is two people talking. That’s evidenced with great success in Compartment No. 6, the new film from director Juho Kuosmanen. Co-winner of the Cannes Grand Prix this year, the film arrives at TIFF with the story of two passengers who meet on a train for a […] More
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TIFF Film Review: Zhang Yimou’s ‘One Second’ Is An Ode to the Power of Cinema
Originally set to premiere at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival, Zhang Yimou’s One Second was mysteriously pulled days before screening. While the official explanation for the move was that the film had technical difficulties during post-production, speculation began immediately that the Chinese censors had their hands all over this. In the two years since […] More
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TIFF Film Review: ‘Petite Maman’ Is Another Céline Sciamma Knockout
How do you take the personal and make it feel universal? That was the task at hand for Céline Sciamma with Petite Maman, her follow-up to the massively acclaimed 2019 romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The world was at Sciamma’s feet after the reception she garnered for that instant classic, which resulted in […] More
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TIFF Film Review: ‘Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’ is An Epic of Crime and Romance
Incredibly striking 16mm photography fills the frames of Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, the new feature from Indonesian filmmaker Edwin. Co-written by the director and Eka Kurniawan, based on Kurniawan’s book of the same name, the film tells the story of Ajo Kawir (Marthino Lio), a street fighter whose hyper-masculinity and need to […] More
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Film Review: ‘Beckett’ Finds John David Washington On the Run Through Greece
Netflix has become known for releasing original films that are either mammoth in scale and/or prestige (think The Irishman and Army of the Dead) or tiny little productions (things like Paddleton and Horse Girl). As is the case with the majority of Hollywood, there isn’t much room for the star-driven mid-budget films that we saw […] More
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TV Review: A Morality Tale Plays Out in the Harsh Landscape of ‘The North Water’
A brutal landscape provides the setting for a showdown between good and evil in The North Water, a five-part limited series from creator Andrew Haigh streaming now on AMC+. Based on the novel by Ian McGuire, Haigh (Weekend, 45 Years) wrote and directed the series, starring Jack O’Connell as Patrick Sumner, a disgraced former army […] More
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Film Review: Isabelle Huppert Breaks Bad as ‘Mama Weed’
For many viewers, all you’ll need to hear is “Isabelle Huppert plays a drug smuggler named Mama Weed” in order to book your front row seat for Jean-Paul Salomé’s new crime caper. It’s easy to see why, as Huppert is one of the best actors we have today, making each new project she takes on […] More
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Film Review: ‘Gunpowder Milkshake’ Brings Refreshing Energy and Creativity to the Action Game
With most of Hollywood’s tentpole productions mining whatever decades-old IP they can get their hands on, it’s pretty rare for a completely original property to exist at all, let alone to build out a world so enticing that you want to come back for another round the moment it’s over. Perhaps that’s why Gunpowder Milkshake […] More
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Film Review: ‘We Don’t Deserve Dogs’ Rightly Pays Tribute to Our Canine Companions
Dogs are better than humans. That’s just a fact. The upcoming documentary We Don’t Deserve Dogs, currently on the festival circuit, is cinematic proof. The film not only pays tribute to our furry friends, but ponders why on Earth they’re so good to us. In some cases, we’ve certainly earned canine companionship, but in others, […] More
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Film Review: ‘Tar’ is Hard to Sit Through
Every so often, you see a horror movie that grabs you from the beginning, and leaves you completely satisfied by the ending. Tar is not even close to that movie. Instead, the film delivers weak effects, dreadful acting, and a scrawny plot with minimal scares. It’s hard to describe the exact plot of this movie, […] More
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Film Review: ‘Do Not Reply’ Mixes Chuckles With Chills
Halloween is fast approaching! One of the most exciting parts of the season is watching horror movies, both new and old. When it was heard that a new horror film was coming out and part of it takes place at a Halloween party, excitement was building for a new autumn flick. However, Do Not Reply […] More
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