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[Review] Battle of the Year 3D

Dance movies, typically, are amongst the best kinds of films for 3D, although motion is heavily regulated and carefully controlled. I remember listening to Jon ...

[TIFF Review] Brazilian Western

Composed by Renato Russo in 1979 and finally released in 1987 on his band Legião Urbana’s album Que País É Este, “Faroeste Caboclo” became a folk song hit in Br...

[TIFF Review] iNumber Number

The South African director behind cinematic adaptations of John van de Ruit’s comedic, teen-lit Spud series hits the Toronto International Film Festival with hi...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Machete Kills

The prospect of a fake trailer included in Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino's double-feature Grindhouse being turned into a full-blown film wasn't encoura...

[Review] A Single Shot

It’s a shame most people need an incident that risks taking their life to finally acknowledge they have one left to live. For John Moon (Sam Rockwell), this mom...

[TIFF Review] Stray Dogs

A woman sits at the edge of a bed, brushing her hair while a young boy and girl are positioned to her side, sleeping soundly. The camera, stationary, can captur...

[TIFF Review] People In Places

Opening with a hilarious (and extremely awkward) first date at an empty restaurant, Juan Cavestany’s People In Places is unapologetically strange and often very...

[Review] Enough Said

There is a (debatable?) rule, in the field of film assessment, which states that a critic should be wary of reaching beyond the text or the frame of a given fil...