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Review: Enemy (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: A university professor (Jake Gyllenhaal) discovers that he has a doppelganger in an out-of-work actor, with a pregnant wife (Sarah Gadon) and some potentially dangerous hobbies. REVIEW: There are so many things that are interesting about ENEMY, not the...
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Movie Review: Horns (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: Ig Perrish (Daniel Radcliffe) wakes up one morning to find horns growing out of his forehead. Soon, he discovers that when people look at them, they reveal their deepest, darkest secrets, giving Ig the opportunity to solve his girlfriend's...
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Review: Devil’s Knot (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: The true story of the arrest and trial of the West Memphis Three, from the perspectives of the mother (Reese Witherspoon) of one of the victims, and the private investigator (Colin Firth) who works for the defence. REVIEW: Director...
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Review: Dallas Buyers Club (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: The true story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a hard-living, homophobic Texan , who learns that he’s HIV positive. With AIDS treatment still a mystery in that era (it takes place in 1986), Woodruff takes on the FDA, and...
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Movie Review: The Green Inferno (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: A group of college activists travel deep into the Peruvian jungle to try and save a lost tribe’s habitat. When their plane crashes, the students find themselves at the mercy of the tribe, who- unbeknownst to them- are a...
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Review: Parkland (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: The aftermath of the Kennedy assassination, told from the perspective of the people of Dallas, including the doctors that tried to save the president (Zac Efron, Colin Hanks), Abraham Zapruder (Paul Giamatti), who infamously caught the assassination on 8mm...
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Review: Gravity (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: Two astronauts- medical engineer Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) and veteran flight commander Matt Kowalksky (George Clooney)- find themselves adrift in space after debris from a satellite causes a catastrophic incident. REVIEW: Every once in a while, a genre...
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Review: Rush (TIFF 2013)

PLOT: The real-life rivalry between Formula One racers Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) and James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth), from their early days on the F3 circuit to the peak of their fame in the 1976 racing season. REVIEW: It’s ironic that...
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