TIFF 50 Review: Hamnet

I haven't read the original novel at the time of watching the film and typing out this review - perhaps someday I should. But the story regarding the creation of…

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TIFF 50 Review: No Other Choice

Park-Chan wook does his own take on the Parasite-type thriller with No Other Choice. Thrillers involving main characters doing whatever it takes for their family to survive and rise up…

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TIFF 50 Review: Miroirs No. 3

Miroirs No. 3 hits all the notes you'd expect from a Christian Petzold movie. You've got the doppelganger stuff from movies like Phoenix, plus it's not Petzold without a good…

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TIFF 50 Review: Junk World

This was one of my most anticipated films for this year's TIFF, considering how wonderful Takahide Hori's debut feature-length movie Junk Head was. A great piece of stop motion animation…

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TIFF 50 Review: The Fence

I have a lot of respect and admiration for Claire Denis as a filmmaker and an artist. Given her pedigree and the films she's made over the years, who wouldn't?…

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TIFF 50 Review: Two Prosecutors

I decided to watch this knowing nothing about director Sergei Loznitsa's previous work. It had gotten some buzz at Cannes when it premiered there, and it received rave reviews from…

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TIFF 50 Review: Magellan

It's not too often that you get slow cinema that feels this grand and epic in scope. Such is the case with Magellan, which admittedly is my first experience with…

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TIFF 50 Review: Frankenstein

Mythical and epic is how I would describe this new take on the Frankenstein story by none other than Guillermo del Toro. Massive set pieces, grand costumes and even a…

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