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Synchronic (TIFF 2019 Movie Review)

PLOT: Two New Orleans paramedics (Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan) notice a series of grisly deaths are seemingly related to a new designer drug called Synchronic. REVIEW: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are a filmmaking duo that have been building...

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Review: Just Mercy (TIFF 2019)

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PLOT: A young Harvard Law grad (Michael B. Jordan) puts his career on the line to set up shop in Alabama, where he dedicates himself to defending death row inmates. He takes on the case of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx),...

Review: Guns Akimbo (TIFF 2019)

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PLOT: Miles (Daniel Radcliffe), a nerdy videogame designer, gets his kicks trolling the fans of “Skizm”, an illegal death-match club live-streamed online. After antagonizing the wrong troll, he wakes up to find two pistols have been surgically fused to his...

Review: The Laundromat (TIFF 2019)

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PLOT: A woman’s (Meryl Streep) investigation into insurance fraud leads her to a never-ending series of shell companies set up by two Panama City law partners (Gary Oldman & Antonio Banderas). REVIEW: THE LAUNDROMAT is director Steven Soderbergh’s long-awaited Panama...

Review: Color Out of Space (TIFF 2019)

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PLOT: A meteorite tumbles to earth bringing with it both psychological and physical changes to people living in the community it contaminates. REVIEW: Richard Stanley is something of a folk hero in the genre community. Following a smashing breakthrough with...

Review: Uncut Gems (TIFF 2019)

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PLOT: Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) is a slippery, unscrupulous jeweler with an out-of-control gambling addiction, who pins his hopes in an Ethiopian opal that he hopes will get him out of the hole is dug himself into – if he...

Knives Out (TIFF 2019 Movie Review)

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PLOT: The mysterious death of a superstar author (Christopher Plummer) attracts the attention of a world-famous detective, Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig), who gathers the victim’s greedy relatives and his nurse for an investigation into what happened. REVIEW: It’s unlikely anything...

Review: Joker (TIFF 2019)

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Read Paul Shirey's take HERE! PLOT: Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is a lonely, often bullied man living in squalor with this mother (Frances Conroy) in Gotham City. As the city’s gulf between the haves and have nots widens, Fleck’s fragile...

Review: Marriage Story (TIFF 2019)

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PLOT: A stage director (Adam Driver) and his actress wife (Scarlett Johansson) struggle to get through an increasingly hostile divorce. REVIEW: They say write what you know, and certainly writer-director Noah Baumbach’s MARRIAGE STORY seems to come from an intensely...