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[TIFF Review] Deepwater Horizon

The 2010 oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico was a disaster beyond belief, not only causing the deaths of workers, but ecologically setting our planet back ...

[TIFF Review] Maudie

Maud Lewis, as played by Sally Hawkins in Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, was an incredibly important Canadian folk artist. Most of her paintings, all rather small-size...

[TIFF Review] Blair Witch

It’s been more than 17 years since The Blair Witch Project arrived in theaters and changed the way Hollywood viewed horror, and filmmaking in general, for bette...

[TIFF Review] Godless

The “social realism” sub-genre of drama has been awards bait in the European festival circuit lately and this year’s Locarno International Film Festival jury, l...

[TIFF Review] The Promise

Terry George's The Promise begins with a title card that appears on-screen stating that 1.5 million Armenians were killed by the Turkish government during World...

[TIFF Review] Lion

Garth Davis' directorial debut Lion is based on a true story. The film makes sure to tell us that at the very beginning of the movie -- just to remind us that w...

[TIFF Review] The Rehearsal

After a 17-year hiatus from directing feature length films, Alison Maclean returns to the screen with The Rehearsal, an adaptation of Eleanor Catton's acclaimed...

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