Tag: Toronto film festival
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‘HAMNET’ REVIEW: TRAGEDY BECOMES EMOTIONAL MANIPULATION IN CHLOÉ ZHAO’S MUTED WEEPER
Art can heal all. While many artists will stand by this idea, art being a cathartic tool also means great pain must be put in. But above the pain what must always be put in great art in other to…
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“DÌDI” SUNDANCE REVIEW: SEAN WANG’S EMOTINAL COMING OF AGE SHOWS GROWING UP IN 2008 IS HELL, BUT SOME MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK CAN FIX ANYTHING
As a millennial there is something both exciting and horrifying of seeing my childhood years become period pieces in film. Not so much nineties films, but rather modern films focused on the nineties making it a time capsule. What is…
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TRIANGLE OF SADNESS REVIEW: RUBEN ÖSTULND BURNS IT TO THE GROUND IN THE YEAR’S WILDEST RIDE
Ruben Östlund is ready for it all to burn to the ground. A director who knows how to have a good time is also ready for total destruction of the world we have all too carelessly accepted. A world where…
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PEARL TIFF REVIEW: MIA GOTH CONTINUES TO AMAZE IN THIS BLOOD LUST CHARACTER STUDY PREQUEL
When Ti West gave the world X, his tribute to slasher films of the independent 70’s generation none of us could have guessed that the film would spawn a spin-off prequel. Let alone that said prequel would be the next…
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THE FABELMANS TIFF REVIEW: STEVEN SPIELBERG BRINGS US HOME WITH A SPECTACULAR REAL LIFE FAIRY TALE
There are many ways to look at movies, but in the end it sort of boils down to two very different angles. The technicalities of filmmaking and then the magic behind it. If you are lucky enough you will be…
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WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY TIFF REVIEW: A GLORIOUSLY ABSURD BIOPIC TO END ALL BIOPICS
There is only one way to tell the story of Alfred Matthew Yankovic, and that is with the truth…well sort of. Better known to the world by his stage name Weird Al Yankovic, the king of parody songs and accordion…