Posts about the Toronto International Film Festival.

TIFF 50 Review: Hamnet

I haven't read the original novel at the time of watching the film and typing out this review - perhaps someday I should. But the story regarding the creation of…

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TIFF 50 Review: No Other Choice

Park-Chan wook does his own take on the Parasite-type thriller with No Other Choice. Thrillers involving main characters doing whatever it takes for their family to survive and rise up…

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TIFF 50 Review: Miroirs No. 3

Miroirs No. 3 hits all the notes you'd expect from a Christian Petzold movie. You've got the doppelganger stuff from movies like Phoenix, plus it's not Petzold without a good…

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TIFF 50 Review: Junk World

This was one of my most anticipated films for this year's TIFF, considering how wonderful Takahide Hori's debut feature-length movie Junk Head was. A great piece of stop motion animation…

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TIFF 50 Review: The Fence

I have a lot of respect and admiration for Claire Denis as a filmmaker and an artist. Given her pedigree and the films she's made over the years, who wouldn't?…

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TIFF 50 Review: Two Prosecutors

I decided to watch this knowing nothing about director Sergei Loznitsa's previous work. It had gotten some buzz at Cannes when it premiered there, and it received rave reviews from…

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