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Review: Seven Psychopaths (TIFF 2012)

Rating: 8/10
PLOT: Marty (Colin Farrell) is a struggling, alcoholic screenwriter, trying to finish up a screenplay called SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS. Little does he know, the dog-napping scheme of his best friend Billy (Sam Rockwell) is going to give him some first-hand knowledge...
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Review: To The Wonder (TIFF 2012)

Rating: 5/10
PLOT: A Frenchwoman (Olga Kurylenko) and her young daughter are brought to rural Oklahoma to live with the enigmatic Neil (Ben Affleck). REVIEW: TO THE WONDER is Terrence Malick as his most pretentious, or rather- Malick-y. Formerly a director that...
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Review: 10 Years

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: On the night before their ten year class reunion, a group of friends gather to catch up on old times. During their celebration, they drink, they reminisce and they come to the realization that some scars don’t heal as...
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Review: Cloud Atlas (Tiff 2012)

Rating: 8/10
PLOT: A multi-narrative epic, following the evolution of a group of souls throughout hundreds of years- from the adventures of a 19th century slave trader, to two dueling composers in pre-WW2 Britain, to a journalist fighting a corrupt corporation in...
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Review: The Master (TIFF 2012)

Rating: 9/10
PLOT: A WW2 veteran, turned aimless drifter (Joaquin Phoenix) falls under the sway of the charismatic head of a new religion. REVIEW: The oeuvre of Paul Thomas Anderson has, thus far, had two distinctly different styles, with the first part...
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Review: Arbitrage

Rating: 7/10
PLOT: Robert Miller is the ideal businessman. He is smart, savvy and ruthless when it comes to building his empire. Yet he is risking it all after losing millions of dollars in investment funds and lying about it in order...
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Review: Looper (Tiff 2012)

Rating: 9/10
PLOT: In the year 2047, Joseph Simmons (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) works as a “Looper”- where gangsters from the year 2077 zap people marked for execution back thirty years, where Simmons and his cronies can more easily dispose of their bodies. Eventually,...
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Review: The Place Beyond The Pines (TIFF 2012)

Rating: 9/10
PLOT: Luke (Ryan Gosling) is a motorcycle rider, eking out a living doing stunt riding at travelling carnivals. When he learns that a waitress (Eva Mendes) he had a fling with a year ago bore him a son, he vows...
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Review: Finding Nemo 3D

Rating: 10/10
PLOT: After a clown fish loses his wife and all but one of his children to a monstrous sea predator, he vows to never put his surviving son in jeopardy again. However problems arise when the boy named Nemo wants...
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Review: Dredd 3D (TIFF 2012)

Rating: 8/10
PLOT: In the dystopian metropolis of Mega City One, law is enforced by the judges, a police force that serves as judge, jury and executioner. Of the judges, Judge Dredd (Karl Urban) is a legend. He’s assigned a young trainee,...
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