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Review: This Is Where I Leave You (TIFF 2014)

Rating: 5/10
PLOT: The combative Altman family is reunited after their patriarch dies. Now, to full-fill his last request, the grown children (Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Corey Stoll, Adam Driver) and their mother (Jane Fonda) have to sit Shiva together for seven...
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Review: The Connection (TIFF 2014)

Rating: 8/10
PLOT: A magistrate (Jean Dujardin) stationed in Marseilles in the seventies, tries to dismantle the infamous “French Connection” which is supplying millions of dollars worth of heroin to the United States. His main target is the kingpin (Gilles Lellouche) at...
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Review: Big Game (TIFF 2014)

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: In a small Finnish village, tradition states that when a boy turns thirteen, he must venture into the woods alone to hunt, and bring a trophy back to his people. Young Oskari (Omni Tommila) is the son of the...
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Review: The Good Lie (TIFF 2014)

Rating: 6/10
PLOT: Four Sudanese refugees are brought to the United States, where they struggle to adapt to a society that seems alien to them with the help of a brash employment agent (Reese Witherspoon). REVIEW: THE GOOD LIE is the kind...
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At the Devil’s Door (Movie Review)

Rating: 5/10
PLOT: A teenaged girl's decision to sell her soul to the devil has devastating consequences (duh!) on not only her, but a realtor who, years later, has to sell her house. REVIEW: With AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR (RENT IT HERE),...
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Review: Wetlands

Rating: 8/10
PLOT: Eighteen-year-old Helen is just a normal teenager still reeling from the divorce of her parents. Well, normal aside from the fact that she’s a brazen nymphomaniac obsessed with ignoring the basics of hygiene. When an unfortunate shaving accident puts...
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Review: Revenge of the Green Dragons (TIFF 2014)

Rating: 1/10
PLOT: In the late-eighties/early nineties, a violent gang of Chinese immigrants take the NYC underworld by storm, building up an empire focused on drug smuggling and human trafficking. REVIEW: REVENGE OF THE GREEN DRAGONS is one of the few TIFF...
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Review: 99 Homes (TIFF 2014)

Rating: 9/10
PLOT: A newly evicted single dad (Andrew Garfield) goes to work for the greedy real estate broker (Michael Shannon) who took his family home. REVIEW: 99 HOMES is one of those movies that just grabs you by the balls from...
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Review: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: A married couple find themselves drifting apart after a tragic happening in their life. Both faced with different challenges, the two try and hold on to a relationship that might not be as strong as they once thought. REVIEW:...
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