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TIFF Review – Burning
If you are already anxious about climate change and its visible effects on our Earth, you may want to avoid watching Burning (2021). It illustrates the continued strain that human activity places on the planet. Director Eva Orner has taken it upon herself to demonstrate…
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TIFF Review – Sundown
Writer and director Michel Franco presents a film that is presumed to be about one man’s introspection of his life. A quiet look at a man who is tired of regretfully living a life he doesn’t want and makes a drastic change. Franco stated in…
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TIFF Review – The Rescue
2018 feels like lightyears ago. Yet, some events of that year stand out. The cave rescue of the Thai soccer players and their coach is one of them. I remember it but don’t recall in minute detail all that went into the rescue and recovery…
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TIFF Review – The Guilty (2021)
Director Antoine Fuqua makes a return to the subject of police in The Guilty (2021). Along with Nic Pizzolatto, the two wrote a script based on the original Danish film from 2018 of the same name. The duo Americanized the story and applied it to…
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TIFF Review – Lakewood
Lakewood (2021) follows Amy Carr (Naomi Watts), a mother who is jogging in the woods. She has already sent her youngest off to school, and her teenage son Noah (Colton Gobbo) is still in bed, saying he is not going to school. It is about…
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TIFF Review – The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
Louis Wain is not a historical figure that many people would even know, let alone know what Wain is famous for doing. I am one of those people, so The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) was an enjoyable treasure of a film and an…
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TIFF Review – Encounter
The stars above give birth to a meteor that plummets to the Earth. The meteor’s debris carries foreign microorganisms that make their way up the food chain through detailed close-ups of insects to the ultimate host, humans, via biting insects. The opening scenes of Encounter…
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TIFF Review – Mothering Sunday
Mothering Sunday (2021), while an odd title, is based on a novel of the same name by Graham Swift. It is centered around the events of Mother’s Day in March 1924 and a maid named Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young). Mothering Sunday (directed by Eva Husson,…
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