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The Company You Keep | Review
Return for Redford as Actor/Director in Heated Political Thriller Robert Redford, the actor, has been a staple of American pop culture for half a century, his golden smile and wet eyes long ago solidified
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Hyde Park on Hudson | Review
Michell Manages FDR’s Affairs, Charmingly Roger Michell’s ravishing Hyde Park on Hudson gives us a glimpse into the private life of one of our most beloved presidents, and what we see is that F.D.R.
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Love, Marilyn | Review
Intimate Side of an Iconic Life: Garbus Digs Through Monroe’s Personal Writings Liz Garbus is well aware that the life and times of Marilyn Monroe have been thoroughly researched and exhaustively commented on from
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The Central Park Five | Review
Burns Dissects Why Pride & Prejudice Put Innocent Youths Behind Bars After years of acclaimed documentary mini-series, Ken Burns returns to the feature film with his daughter Sarah Burns and fellow colleague David McMahon,
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Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God | Review
Gibney Exposes Suppression Of Truth Behind Ministerial Molestation After taking a breather from feature hardline journalism with a series of lighter docs in Catching Hell, Magic Trip and The Last Gladiator, the prolific documentarian
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A Liar’s Autobiography | Review
A Gay Old Time: Documentary/Animation Hybrid a Loving, Original Tribute Co-directors Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, and Ben Timlett (two of which were involved with a 2009 documentary series on Monty Python) have managed to
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The Bay | Review
Bay Day: Levinson Mines Horror Genre to Surprising Effect In what may be one of the year’s most curious entries in the horror genre, The Bay, master filmmaker Barry Levinson makes a found footage
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My Worst Nightmare | Review
A charming, Gallic comedy featuring one of France’s greatest actresses. Anne Fontaine’s latest confection, My Worst Nightmare, is a delightful vehicle for the awesome talent of Isabelle Huppert. Fontaine, while not the strongest director/writer,
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Seven Psychopaths | Review
Usual Suspects: McDonagh Gives Us a Light Killer Comedy With Latest Written before his hit film In Bruges (2008), Martin McDonagh has landed with another tongue-in-cheek comedy, though perhaps not of the same caliber
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Janeane from Des Moines | Review
Looking the Part: Faux Docu Addresses Tea Party Politics with Everyday Issues When it comes to the world of U.S politics, more specifically Republican Party candidacy, the state of Iowa could be considered the
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Jayne Mansfield’s Car | TIFF 2012 Review
Brains of a Blonde: Thornton’s Unnecessary Return to the Director’s Chair After his astonishingly strong 1996 directorial debut, Sling Blade, you’d be hard pressed to find another new director more highly anticipated than Billy
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To the Wonder | TIFF 2012 Review
Wonder Dunder: Malick’s Visual Poem Prayer a Taxing Free Verse If you’ve happened to read anything about Terrence Malick’s latest film, To the Wonder, chances are, it won’t meet your expectations. That’s not to
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Passion | TIFF 2012 Review
Passion Fruit: De Palma’s Return to Genre a Flimsy Revamp Arguably one of the greatest American directors from the mid 70s to late 80s, Brian De Palma returns with Passion, a remake of the
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Thy Womb | TIFF 2012 Review
Womb Doom: Mendoza Gives Us Another Poverty Stricken Filipino Narrative Quickly assuming the stature of one of the most important directors from the Philippines, Brillante Mendoza churns out another macabre narrative of the hard knock
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God Loves Caviar | TIFF 2012 Review
And Hates the Proletariat: Greek Costume Drama Stinks to High Heaven Greek director Yannis Smaragdis began his career in the mid 1970’s as a writer/director, making only a handful of feature films since. Some
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The Fifth Season | TIFF 2012 Review
If Spring Never Comes: Woodworth and Brosens Expertly Conclude Their Trilogy Directors Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens didn’t set out to conclude their trilogy of man’s relationship with nature, that includes their first two
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Dormant Beauty | TIFF 2012 Review
Sleepytime Drama: Bellocchio Messy Message Movie After yet another career peak with his 2009 film Vincere, Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio continues his examination of Italian society with Dormant Beauty, a treatise on Italy’s hot
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Everybody Has a Plan | TIFF 2012 Review
Best Laid Plans: Piterbarg Gets Double the Mortensen in Debut Argentinean director Ana Piterbarg nabs Viggo Mortensen for dual roles in her debut, a slow burn identity thriller, Everybody Has a Plan. Mortensen, having
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Frances Ha | TIFF 2012 Review
Baumbach Stops Wallowing In Cynicism To Lens His Best Yet Noah Baumbach has built an oeuvre on characters frozen in time, refusing to let go of the past while evading emotional maturity at every
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Byzantium | TIFF 2012 Review
My Favorite Sister Daughter: Jordan Hits Up the Lady Vamps Boy it’s hard to add anything new to the vampire genre, once a horror staple and breeding ground for some delightful, classic thrills, now
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Twice Born | TIFF 2012 Review
Emulating Almodóvar: Castellitto Employs Cruz To Pull Heartstrings The renowned Italian actor turned middling director Sergio Castellitto returns to his place on both sides of the camera with Twice Born, this time playing the
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Dredd 3D | Review
Judge Not: Travis Magnificently Revamps Dystopic Comic The mid 90’s was a time when comic book adaptations were neither highly regarded nor definitive blockbusters, and many will remember a 1995 title, Judge Dredd starring
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In the House | TIFF 2012 Review
Write On: Ozon’s Latest an Exercise in Authorial Manipulation The steadily working Francois Ozon continues with his playful dark comic streak in his latest, In the House, an adaptation of a play by Juan
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Here Comes the Devil | TIFF 2012 Review
Lock Your Souls Up: Bogliano’s Latest a Decent But Frayed Exercise Adrian Garcia Bogliano’s tenth feature film, Here Comes the Devil finally shows the Argentinean horrormeister beginning to hone his craft to create something
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Zaytoun | TIFF 2012 Review
Pitted Olive: Riklis’ Period Piece Adventure a Sappy Fantasy Israeli director Eran Riklis returns to familiar territory with Zaytoun, using another unlikely friendship scenario between a Palestinian and Israeli which he used to great
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