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Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (TIFF2017)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: A cardiac surgeon (Colin Farrell) sparks up a friendship with the teen-aged son (Barry Keoghan) of a former patient who died under his watch. Soon, the boy begins ingratiating himself into the doctor’s home life, only to make a...

Review: Borg/McEnroe (TIFF)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: On the eve of the 1980 Wimbledon Championships, Swedish champ Bjorn Borg (Sverrir Gudnason) faces the prospect of not being able to achieve his fifth straight win when pitted against rising American tennis champ John McEnroe (Shia LeBeouf). REVIEW:...

TV Review: The Deuce (TIFF 2017)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: The legitimization of New York’s sex industry, seen through the eyes of a Time Square barman (James Franco), an independent prostitute (Maggie Gyllenhaal), an honest beat cop (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.) and a variety of pimps, streetwalkers, pornographers and gangsters....

Our 10 most anticipated TIFF movies!

Posted 9 years ago

I can’t believe it’s already TIFF time. Last year’s crop of films, which included NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, LA LA LAND and MOONLIGHT still feel so fresh in my head, but yes, it’s actually been a year since they...

Louis C.K. directed a movie in secret & it will debut at TIFF this year

Posted 9 years ago

With almost every film subject to high levels of exposure before the cameras start rolling all the way up to their release, it seems impossible to make a whole movie and keep it a secret from the world. Turns out...

Review: The Promise

Posted 9 years ago

THE PROMISE was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage.  PLOT: In the final days of the Ottoman Empire, an Armenian medical student (Oscar Isaac) falls in-love with a French-educated Armenian woman (Charlotte Le Bon) who’s the mistress...

Review: Free Fire

Posted 9 years ago

FREE FIRE was previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: A mob/IRA arms deal in a remote warehouse goes horribly awry when a beef between two thug foot soldiers erupts into an epic, no-holds-barred gunfight. REVIEW: For...

Review: Their Finest

Posted 9 years ago

This was originally reviewed as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage.  PLOT: During the London Blitz, a young woman (Gemma Arterton) takes a job as a script writer for women’s dialogue in morale-boosting films. When an idea of hers gets...

The Autopsy of Jane Doe (Movie Review)

Posted 9 years ago

PLOT: Small-town father-and-son coroners (Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch) perform an emergency, late-night autopsy on the corpse of a young woman whose biology makes no sense. REVIEW: Of all the films I’ve seen at TIFF this year (nearly twenty as...

Arrival (Movie Review)

Posted 9 years ago

This review was originally run as part of our TIFF 2016 coverage. PLOT: After mysterious alien ships appear around the globe, a linguist (Amy Adams) is recruited by an army colonel (Forest Whitaker) in order to help communicate with the...

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