Review: Wakefield (TIFF 2016)

Rating: 6/10
PLOT: A man (Bryan Cranston) inexplicably abandons his family, moving into the family attic and spying on them from afar. REVIEW: WAKEFIELD is a movie that would never work were it not for Bryan Cranston’s performance. Literally on-screen every-second of...

Review: LBJ (TIFF 2016)

Rating: 5/10
PLOT: The story of Lyndon Baines Johnson (Woody Harrelson) during the Kennedy years through to his eventual swearing-in as president following the JFK assassination, and his difficult first year in-office as he struggles to pass the Civil Rights Act. REVIEW:...
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Review: Message from the King (TIFF 2016)

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: A man (Chadwick Boseman) from South Africa travels to L.A to find out what happened to his estranged sister. After finding her brutally tortured corpse in the morgue, he sets out to solve her murder and take brutal revenge....
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Blair Witch (Movie Review)

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: James, the younger brother of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT's Heather Donahue, receives a video that appears to show the infamous footage of her final days in the haunted Black Hills Forest, where the fabled Blair Witch resides. Setting out...

Review: Birth of the Dragon (TIFF 2016)

Rating: 5/10
PLOT: In 1964 Chinatown, a young Bruce Lee (Philip Ng) finds himself in conflict with Shaolin monk Wong Jack Man (Xia Yu) who’s been sent to keep Lee from teaching Kung-Fu secrets to whites – or has he? REVIEW: The...
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Review: Blair Witch

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: James, the younger brother of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT's Heather Donahue, receives a video that appears to show the infamous footage of her final days in the haunted Black Hills Forest, where the fabled Blair Witch resides. Setting out...

Review: (Re)Assignment (TIFF 2016)

Rating: 4/10
PLOT: A macho hit-man becomes the unwilling recipient of a sex-change performed by a brilliant surgeon (Sigourney Weaver) with a grudge. Now a beautiful woman (Michelle Rodriguez), the killer sets-out to get even. REVIEW: (RE)ASSIGNMENT is nothing if not topical,...
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Review: Jackie (TIFF 2016)

Rating: 8/10
PLOT: The aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, as shown through the eyes of Jackie (Natalie Portman), as she tries to organize her husband’s burial and come-to-terms with her new reality as the widow of a president. REVIEW: Pablo Larrain’s JACKIE...
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Review: Moonlight (TIFF 2016)

Rating: 9/10
PLOT: A portrait of a young African-American man, growing up in the shadow of a crack epidemic, who struggles to come-to-terms with his homosexuality in a culture that idealizes hyper-masculinity. REVIEW: Since its Telluride debut, Barry Jenkins’s MOONLIGHT has rocketed...
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Review: The Bad Batch (TIFF 2016)

Rating: 5/10
PLOT: In a society where outcasts are qualified as being part of a “bad batch” and exiled into a desert wasteland, a young woman (Suki Waterhouse) struggles to find her place in a world full of cannibals and the insane....
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