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Lean On Pete Movie Review: Andrew Haigh spins a beautiful and tragic coming of age tale
Allyson Johnson April 5, 2018

What tremendous lengths we go to in order to combat the impending sense of loneliness. That lingering sense of empty space along with the mechanisms of a coming of age story round out director Andrew …

Allyson Johnson April 5, 2018
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TIFF Movie Review: Lean On Pete
Allyson Johnson September 15, 2017

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. What great lengths we go to in order to combat the impending sense of loneliness. That lingering doubt along with the mechanisms of a coming of age story r…

Allyson Johnson September 15, 2017
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TIFF Movie Review: The Shape of Water
Allyson Johnson September 13, 2017

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. Director Guillermo del Toro builds his worlds from the ground up, imbuing his chosen universes with such distinct senses of self that we can’t help b…

Allyson Johnson September 13, 2017
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TIFF Movie Review: Molly’s Game
Allyson Johnson September 13, 2017

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. With high voltage energy and the type of kinetic movement that possesses his screenplay’s, Aaron Sorkin’s first directorial endeavor blasts off…

Allyson Johnson September 13, 2017
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TIFF Review: The Disaster Artist
Jon Espino September 13, 2017

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. I’ve had some very uncomfortable moments in my life. There was the time in the first grade where I had a crush on a girl and so I got her a flower. A…

Jon Espino September 13, 2017
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TIFF Review: Euphoria
Allyson Johnson September 12, 2017

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. The English-language debut of Sweden’s Lisa Langseth and her third collaboration with actress Alicia Vikander, their latest outing together suffers f…

Allyson Johnson September 12, 2017
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TIFF Movie Review: Mary Shelley
Allyson Johnson September 12, 2017

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. There’s no worth in trying to deny that Mary Shelley is an utterly familiar biopic. Much more though in the vein of a Victorian era literary adaptati…

Allyson Johnson September 12, 2017

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