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Review: Beasts of No Nation (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

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)

Posted 11 years ago

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)

Posted 11 years ago

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...

Review: The Program (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

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...

Southbound (TIFF Review 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

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,...

Review: Truth (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

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:...

Review: Eye in the Sky (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

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....

The Girl in the Photographs (TIFF Review 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

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

Posted 11 years ago

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...

Review: Brooklyn (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

  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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