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[NYFF Review] The Kid With a Bike

The Dardenne brothers (Jean-Pierre and Luc) are known for a very particular brand of cinema. After a collaborating on a number of documentaries, the Dardennes s...

[VIFF Review] The Sword Identity

With his screenplay for The Grandmasters coming to the big screen next year by Wong Kar Wai, writer/director Haofeng Xu gives us the first taste of his crea...

[Review] The Way

When you decide to fit in an almost two and a half hour film about a man hiking an 800 kilometer trail through Spain at the 2010 Toronto International Film ...

[NYFF Review] Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

You can find Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory at the rarefied juncture where reality and art meet, with each pulling the other to form something greater than simp...

[Review] Real Steel

Director Shawn Levy has delivered some of the more cringe-worthy kids films in recent memory. In past Levy films, one can witness artificial hearts, a prono...

[VIFF Review] Bumrush

Not to be outdone by its New York City and Chicago counterparts, the Montreal gang wars of the past decade prove Canada isn’t the idyllic place of kindness ...

[VIFF Review] Top Floor, Left Wing

How do you turn a hostage situation concerning cocaine, eviction notices, and Algerian assassins into a stage for bureaucratic ineptitude and slum reform? A...

[VIFF Review] Miss Bala

If you ever have a daughter that begs you for entrance into a beauty pageant and you can’t bring yourself to comply, pop on Miss Bala and she’ll never ask a...

[VIFF Review] Patang

For Chicago-born Indian-American Prashant Bhargava, his debut feature film Patang is a seven-year labor of love. Rooted in the memory of his own uncles fig...