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76 Days Review: Devastating and Necessary | TIFF 2020
Allyson Johnson September 15, 2020

The start of 76 Days, the latest from documentary filmmaker Hao Wu along with Weixi Chen and their anonymous co-director, is something out of a horror movie. First it’s the haunting sobs of a medical …

Allyson Johnson September 15, 2020
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Yes, God, Yes Movie Review: A Quietly Touching Coming of Age Story
Yasmin Kleinbart August 15, 2020

Natalia Dyer exchanges 80’s spandex for an early 2000’s Catholic school uniform in Karen Maine’s Yes, God, Yes. Maine previously co-wrote Obvious Child, a comedic character study about a childish adul…

Yasmin Kleinbart August 15, 2020
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The Call of the Wild Movie Review: Misses the point of Jack London’s Novel
Nathanael Hood February 22, 2020

There’s something deeply, fundamentally perverse about filming a Jack London story with CGI animals—it’s akin to shooting a film version of James Joyce’s Ulysses on location…in Belfast. Everything tha…

Nathanael Hood February 22, 2020
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Herself Review: Clare Dunne unlocks the power of the human spirit in Phyllida Lloyd’s remarkable return to the big screen | Sundance 2020
Jon Negroni February 1, 2020

Sometimes, you can just tell that the leading actor of a film was deeply involved in the creative process, and that is certainly the case for Clare Dunne, who co-wrote and stars in Herself, a new…

Jon Negroni February 1, 2020
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Falling Review: Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut is an excruciating melodrama about fatherhood | Sundance 2020
Jon Negroni January 25, 2020

Viggo Mortensen has starred in many avant-garde dramas about troubled middle-aged men, but Falling is the veteran actor’s first time directing and writing is own film, as well as starring in…

Jon Negroni January 25, 2020
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Little Women Movie Review: A Near-Perfect Adaptation for This Generation
Yasmin Kleinbart November 27, 2019

150 years after its publication, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women remains a rite of passage for young women and girls alike. The March sisters, particularly Jo, were ahead of their time and taught gir…

Yasmin Kleinbart November 27, 2019
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21 Bridges Movie Review: Chadwick Boseman classes up routine cop drama
Jon Winkler November 24, 2019

Chadwick Boseman is officially a made man in Hollywood. After earning acclaim for his dead-on portrayal of two of the most famous black men in the history of American culture (Jackie Robinson and Jame…

Jon Winkler November 24, 2019

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