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TIFF 2015 Wrap-up & Top 10!

I can’t believe it’s already over, but another edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is in the books. Once again it was my great pleasure to represent JoBlo.com at the festival (my 7th year believe it or not)....
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The Final Girls (TIFF Review 2015)

PLOT: A group of teens find themselves sucked into a cheesy eighties slasher flick, where they must do battle with a Jason-style killer so they can return home. REVIEW: THE FINAL GIRLS is like the LAST ACTION HERO of horror...
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Review: Disorder (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: Vincent (Matthias Schoenaerts) – a former soldier with PTSD– is hired to protect the wife (Diane Kruger) and son of a shady businessman. When he’s arrested, the wife finds herself marked for death and now it’s up to the...
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Review: Stonewall (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: Kicked-out by his parents for being gay, young Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine) packs his bags and moves to 1960’s NYC in the hopes of finding acceptance. His nights at the Stonewall, a historic gay club, afford him a look...
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Review: Mr. Right (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: A cheerful hit-man (Sam Rockwell) falls for an unlucky-in-love young woman (Anna Kendrick) but their relationship is threatened by his murderous former mentor (Tim Roth) and an army of contract killers looking to take him out. REVIEW: The word...
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Review: The Witch (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: Expelled from their village, a family of  devoutly Christian settlers encounter supernatural forces in 17th century New England. REVIEW: Not catching THE WITCH at Sundance this year proved to be one of my only true regrets of the festival,...

Review: Beasts of No Nation (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: After his family is slaughtered in the chaos of a West African civil war, a young boy named Agu (Abraham Attah) falls under the sway of a mercenary leader known only as The Commandant (Idris Elba) and becomes a...

Review: Equals (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: In a Utopian future society where emotions are suppressed, two people (Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart) are infected with a disease that causes them to experience emotions such as love for the first time. REVIEW: EQUALS is a highly...

Review: Man Down (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: A war veteran (Shia LaBeouf) desperately searches for his wife and son in post-apocalyptic America. REVIEW: I'll say this for director Dito Montiel – he never takes the easy road. From his divisive first film, A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING...
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Review: The Program (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: Sports journalist David Walsh (Chris O'Dowd) tries to expose Lance Armstrong's (Ben Foster) doping scheme over the course of his phenomenally successful reign as the world's most popular athlete. REVIEW: About forty minutes into THE PROGRAM, a guy who...
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