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'Monster' Review: Kore-Eda Hirokazu's Stirring Drama Shifts The Perspective | TIFF 2023
Director-editor Kore-eda Hirokazu's perspective-shifting drama Monster (怪物 in Japanese) not only challenges the definition of the word in th
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- Sep 16
'Smugglers' Review: Ryoo Seung-Wan's Crowd-Pleaser Dives Deep With Kim Hye-Soo | TIFF 2023
There's absolutely no shortage of it or any other kind of character quirks in Smugglers (밀수 in Korean), directed by Ryoo Seung-wan and co-wr
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- Sep 9
'The Teachers' Lounge' Review: School Becomes An Idealistic Battleground | TIFF 2023
Taking a long, hard look at nobility, differences in perspective and consequences within a school system is The Teachers' Lounge (Das Lehrer
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- Sep 8
'Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person' Review: Undeadpan Vampiric Hijinks | TIFF 2023
Director and co-writer Ariane Louis-Seize announces herself to the world with her debut feature Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal
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- Sep 24, 2021
TIFF 2021: 'I'm Your Man', 'The Survivor', 'Quickening' | Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama | Capsule Reviews
Putting the ''A'' and ''I'' in relationship is director-writer Maria Schrader's latest effort I'm Your Man (Ich bin dein Mensch originally i
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- Sep 22, 2021
TIFF 2021: 'The Daughter, 'Benediction' | Tense Thriller, Terence Davies' Drama | Capsule Reviews
Possibly earning the crowning achievement of being the most under-the-radar film at this year's Toronto International Film Festival is a pro
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- Sep 20, 2021
TIFF 2021: 'Drive My Car', 'The Guilty' | Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, Jake Gyllenhaal | Capsule Reviews
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 the main character
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- Sep 16, 2021
TIFF 2021: 'Encounter', 'The Mad Women's Ball' | Riz Ahmed, Mélanie Laurent | Capsule Reviews
This happens in director-writer Michael Pierce's Encounter, co-written with Joe Barton, which is a sort of sci-fi-action-thriller-drama mash
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- Sep 14, 2021
TIFF 2021: 'The Gravedigger's Wife', 'Murina' | Family Drama, Coming-Of-Age | Capsule Reviews
Taking the viewer to somewhere that movies don't usually go, The Gravedigger's Wife (Guled & Nasra in Finland, Somali title currently unknow
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- Sep 12, 2021
TIFF 2021: 'Aloners', 'As In Heaven' | Gong Seung-Yeon, Religious Drama | Capsule Reviews
Finding confined spaces in Korea is Aloners (혼자 사는 사람들 in Korean), a confident first film from director-writer-editor Hong Sung-eun, which j
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