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TIFF Review: Despite strong performances from its leads, ‘Wildfire’ is doused by lackluster storytelling

courtesy of TIFF Plot: After having suddenly and mysteriously disappeared for almost a year, a women returns to her hometown… Read More

September 17, 2020

TIFF Review: ‘The Truffle Hunters’ digs up one of the year’s most moving films

Courtesy of TIFF Plot: In Italy, where truffle hunting is a culinary obsession, a number of elderly hunters continue to… Read More

September 17, 2020

TIFF Review: Rosamund Pike is a standout in J Blakeson’s sharp and clever ‘I Care A Lot’

courtesy of TIFF After the disappointment that was The 5th Wave, director J Blakeson makes his return to a smaller… Read More

September 16, 2020

TIFF Review: The deeply earnest ‘Good Joe Bell’ is a story of self-redemption

courtesy of TIFF Plot: The true story of an Oregon father, Joe Bell, who sets out on a walk across… Read More

September 16, 2020

TIFF Review: ‘Notturno’ doc highlights the aftermath of war told through the eyes of those who lived it

Plot: Filmed in several parts of the war-torn Middle East, NOTTURNO documents the aftermath of war through the eyes of… Read More

September 16, 2020

TIFF Review: Sam Pollard’s riveting ‘MLK/FBI’ looks at Hoover’s attempt to destroy an American hero

courtesy of TIFF In my June op-ed, about America’s growing moral dissonance systemically reinforced by the entertainment content we consume, I… Read More

September 15, 2020

TIFF Review: Shortcuts and misdirected focus don’t ring true in ‘Good Joe Bell’

courtesy of TIFF A road paved with good intentions, GOOD JOE BELL begins as a story about the shared physical… Read More

September 15, 2020

TIFF Review: ‘New Order’ is a harrowing, edge-of-your-seat experience

Courtesy of TIFF Plot: In one of Mexico’s richest neighborhoods, high-society guests flock to a lavish mansion to celebrate a… Read More

September 15, 2020

TIFF Review: ‘180 Degree Rule’ speaks for countless women whose only language is silence

Courtesy of TIFF Plot: Tehran, present day. A school teacher and a mother to a 5-year old daughter is preparing… Read More

September 15, 2020

TIFF Review: ‘Summer of 85’

The opening minutes of SUMMER OF 85 tells us exactly what it’s about.  Filmmakers tend to play the Bury Your… Read More

September 14, 2020

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