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[Review] No Escape

Violence is a true horror in No Escape, a gripping microcosm of inhumanity set during a brutal coup d’état. Director John Erick Dowdle has a knack for placing a...

[Review] We Are Your Friends

Let it be so, 2015 is the year of EDM (Electronic Dance Music) in film. Earlier this summer, we were given Eden, a little-seen but much-loved chronicle of a Fre...

[TIFF Review] Born to Dance

Apparently kids from Baltimore to County Durham to Auckland have the same problem: parents just don’t understand. So little has changed since Will Smith and DJ ...

[Review] Grandma

Lily Tomlin has had more than just one “role of a lifetime” in her filmography, but in writer/director Paul Weitz’s Grandma she’s given the type of project that...

[Review] The Mend

While watching The Mend, the debut feature from writer-director John Magary, I was often reminded of a favorite point from Roger Ebert’s review of Pulp Fiction....

[Review] American Ultra

From its first few shots, it's clear that American Ultra is removed from the relatively grounded drama of Greg Mottola's underrated Adventureland, the last film...