2021 | AFTER MISERY

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TIFF 2021: 'Drive My Car' | 'The Guilty' (Reviews)

DRIVE MY CAR You will not drift in my Tokyo, you will simply just Drive My Car (ドライブ・マイ・カー in Japanese). Or you won't actually because...

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'Dune' Review

Perhaps it'd be wise to make this review a ''Part One'' as well since the two hours and 30 minutes of Dune are certainly filled with...

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TIFF 2021: 'The Mad Women's Ball' | 'Encounter' (Reviews)

THE MAD WOMEN'S BALL Back with her fifth feature in the big seat, Mélanie Laurent directs, co-writes (with Chris Deslandes) and co-stars...

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TIFF 2021: 'The Gravedigger's Wife | 'Murina' (Reviews)

THE GRAVEDIGGER'S WIFE Taking the viewer to somewhere that movies don't usually go, The Gravedigger's Wife (Guled & Nasra in Finland,...

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TIFF 2021: 'Aloners' | 'As In Heaven' (Reviews)

ALONERS Finding confined spaces in Korea is Aloners (혼자 사는 사람들 in Korean), a confident first film from director-writer-editor Hong...

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'Luca' Review

Okay, alright, just hit me with your best selection of Italian references (reFirenzes?) along with exaggerated hand movements so we will...

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Quick Reviews: 'F9: The Fast Saga' | 'Chaos Walking'

F9: THE FAST SAGA Oh man, where do you even start with this one? Director and co-writer Justin Lin's F9: The Fast Saga, tenth movie in...

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'The Father' Review

Trying to convince anyone to check out a movie about a man and his loved ones dealing with his dementia is always an uphill battle but...

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'The Forever Purge' Review

If you have blinked at least once in the last 30 seconds, you might have missed one or two new instalments of an established horror...

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'Beckett' Review

Never been to Greece but it sure can look lovely there based on visual splendour of Beckett, a manhunt thriller that's dropping on...