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[TIFF Review] Lady Macbeth

Before William Oldroyd's first foray on the silver screen with Lady Macbeth, he was an experienced theater director, which clearly has aided his adaptation of N...

[TIFF Review] Wakefield

Bryan Cranston’s Howard Wakefield seems to have a great life. He is a successful New York City lawyer, is married to a loving wife, has two teenage girls, and o...

[TIFF Review] Paris Can Wait

With her last feature directorial credit being contributions to 1991's Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, Eleanor Coppola is perhaps better known as ...

[TIFF Review] Denial

There's often a genuine dramatic pull to films in the courtroom drama genre, yet they've suffered the last few decades because of the conventional tropes that c...

[TIFF Review] Barry

During his college days in New York, Barack Obama used to be called “Barry.” At that point in time he hadn’t fully embraced his African American roots yet, but ...

[TIFF Review] Blue Jay

Sometimes you just can’t escape the past. Moments that have shaped you and made you who you are today can happen at any time without you even knowing it. They c...

[TIFF Review] LBJ

There's been no shortage of Lyndon B. Johnson depictions on film as of late, with Ava DuVernay capturing the 36th U.S. president as an arrogant man trying to di...

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