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Southbound (TIFF Review 2015)

PLOT: Desperate travelers on a long-stretch of abandoned highway are forced to come face-to-face with their most primal fears. REVIEW: Anthology movies – by their very nature – are almost always uneven. At their best, such as the VHS series,...
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Review: Truth (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: The true story of the events leading to Dan Rather‘s (Robert Redford) contentious CBS exit, revolving around the controversial 60 Minutes II story that exposed the preferential treatment given to George W. Bush during his Vietnam-era military service. REVIEW:...
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Review: Eye in the Sky (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: A British General (Helen Mirren) must navigate a political and moral minefield while commanding a drone strike on a notorious terrorist who’s planning a suicide bombing. REVIEW: EYE IN THE SKY gets everything right that GOOD KILL got wrong....
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The Girl in the Photographs (TIFF Review 2015)

PLOT: A celebrity photographer (Kal Penn) and his vacuous posse descend on a small town when the amateur photographic work of a vicious serial killer attracts his attention. REVIEW: Being that THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS bears the name of...

Review: Pawn Sacrifice

The following review was originally part of our TIFF 2014 coverage. PLOT: The true story of troubled chess champion Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) who – at the height of the Cold War – played a series of famous chess matches...
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Review: Brooklyn (TIFF 2015)

  PLOT: In the 1950's, a young Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) leaves her family and home behind to start a new life in the United States. Settling in Brooklyn, the comely young woman finds a new sense of self, especially...
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Review: Black Mass (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: A looks at the brutal reign of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp), who ruled South Boston while covertly working as an FBI informant, feeding the bureau information on his competitors and shielding his schemes from prosecution. REVIEW: BLACK...

Review: SPL 2 – A Time for Consequences (TIFF 2015)

  PLOT: An undercover HK cop (Wu Jing) is sent to a hellish Thai prison after his cover is blown. The center of an organ trafficking ring, one of the few honest guards (Tony Jaa) happens to have a dying...
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Review: Where to Invade Next (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: Michael Moore‘s latest documentary takes a comical look at the progressive social policies of some of Europe’s most productive countries, with Moore arguing the U.S should actively steal some of these ideas to increase ordinary Americans’ quality of life....
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Review: The Danish Girl (TIFF 2015)

PLOT: The true story of Lili Elbe (Eddie Redmayne) who was born Einar Wegener and became one of the first recipients of gender reassignment surgery. REVIEW: THE DANISH GIRL is nothing if not timely. With the transgender issue dominating headlines...
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