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Tiff 2023: Dispatch Part 2

Sly 

Directed by Thom Zimmy 

Runtime 95 Minutes 

In Thom Zimmy’s hagiographic overview of Sylvester Stallone’s oeuvre, the Italian Stallion is a two-trick pony. Catching up with the actor-writer-director in the midst of a trip down memory lane caused by

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Tiff 2023: Dispatch Part 1

Holiday

Directed by Edoardo Gabbriellini

Runtime 102 Mins

Cast against the picturesque hospitality of a seaside town in Italy, the likes of which spark jealousy when peered through an Instagram story, a scandal concerning a hotel manager, her lover, and

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Tiff 2023: WOMAN OF THE HOUR Review

It would be difficult to conjure a clearer picture of the suspect and scattered intentionality woven through Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, a true-crime thriller ripped from the bloodsoaked headlines that takes aim at the pivotal role misogyny plays in framing the genres

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AIR Review

There is one pernicious caveat that Ben Affleck’s latest directorial effort will be subjected to and is all but required to meet in order for some to find some iota of enjoyment from its premise. The task set before the frustratingly Google-resistant

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ENYS MEN Review

On an isolated island, just off the coast of Cornwall, a woman (Mary Woodvine) checks the temperature of the soil surrounding a crop of a rare strain of flora native to the island each day. The year is 1973, and this bouquet

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SCREAM 6 Review

The latest Scream recedes further into itself and snuffs out all attempts to carve a new path forward.

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Tiff 2022: THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN Review

Martin McDonagh’s latest film, crafted from his established, pitch-black sense of humor, is the anti-buddy comedy. Banshees of Inisherin is a “hangout” movie where — rather than focusing on the experiential deepening of a friendship — the sudden, dramatic, seemingly sporadic dissolving

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Tiff 2022: HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE Review

In the third chapter of Andreas Malm’s controversial political call to activism, How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire, the ecology professor and environmental activist rails against the prevalent fatalism and “doomerism” that spreads among

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Tiff 2022: THE FABELMANS Review

Sifting through the tender memories of his youth, Steven Spielberg has lovingly crafted his personal celebration of the indelible power movies have over us in that signature, sentimental register that the veteran director has perfected over the course of his career. Using

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Tiff 2022: WENDELL & WILD Review

Henry Selick’s long-gestating follow-up project to the acclaimed Coraline (2009), his first and only directorial effort with Laika Studios before departing over contractual negotiations, was ostensibly accepted as a permanent resident of development hell. Not through a lack of trying, the Nightmare

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Tiff 2022: Roundup Part 3

Pearl

Directed by Ti West

Runtime 102 Mins

Hot off the heels of the generously pastiched X from earlier this year, Ti West’s prequel/followup carves through the scattershot treatment of porno chic for a more grounded and psychologically terrifying character

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Tiff 2022: GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY Review

This review is spoiler free, but does contain information regarding the cast members, the location, the time period and the main character’s occupation. No major plot points are revealed.   

The central metaphor of the “Glass Onion,” a layered object which nevertheless has