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![The Best (and Worst) Films We Saw at TIFF 2020]()
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![TIFF Announces 2020 Award Winners]()
NewsTIFF Announces 2020 Award Winners Published Sep 21, 2020This year's Toronto International Film Festival wrapped up over the weekend, and while this year's festival has been extremely different fro...
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![TIFF Review: 'New Order' Takes a Nihilistic, Both-Sides Perspective on Political Upheaval Directed by Michel Franco]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'New Order' Takes a Nihilistic, Both-Sides Perspective on Political Upheaval Directed by Michel Franco Published Sep 18, 2020The utility of rioting has been an important debate of late. For some, destruction of property seems to be a step too far; others recognize...
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![TIFF Review: 'Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time' Is Worth Getting Lost In Directed by Lili Horvát]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time' Is Worth Getting Lost In Directed by Lili Horvát Published Sep 17, 2020Lili Horvát joins her fellow countryman Kornél Mundruczó (whose Pieces of a Woman offered a melodramatic look at the complexities of lost mo...
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![Ten Acts You Can't Miss at POP Montreal]()
FeaturesTen Acts You Can't Miss at POP Montreal Published Sep 17, 2020Promotional consideration provided by POP Montréal. POP Montréal is among a small selection of festivals to feature in-person performance...
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![TIFF Review: 'Underplayed' Highlights EDM's Diversity Problem — and Shows Why It's So Important to Fix It Directed by Stacey Lee]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'Underplayed' Highlights EDM's Diversity Problem — and Shows Why It's So Important to Fix It Directed by Stacey Lee Published Sep 16, 2020"You can't be what you can't see," says Alison Wonderland in Underplayed, a documentary about the dearth of gender, sexual, and ethnic repre...
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![TIFF Review: 'Violation' Is Unflinching in Its Complex Portrayal of Revenge Directed by Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'Violation' Is Unflinching in Its Complex Portrayal of Revenge Directed by Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer Published Sep 16, 2020Like Gaspar Noé's Irréversible before it, Violation masterfully plays with the promise of catharsis supposedly ingrained in the "rape and re...
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![TIFF Review: 'I Am Greta' Is Just Another Photo Op Directed by Nathan Grossman]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'I Am Greta' Is Just Another Photo Op Directed by Nathan Grossman Published Sep 16, 2020It's corny and played out, but there's a reason why phrases like "hell world" have become overused to the point of cliché — things are a bit...
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![TIFF Review: 'Good Joe Bell' Is a Tragedy That Can't Quite Humanize Its Own Subjects Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'Good Joe Bell' Is a Tragedy That Can't Quite Humanize Its Own Subjects Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green Published Sep 15, 2020Good Joe Bell offers Mark Wahlberg a dramatic turn without doing much to advance the issues it's attempting to tackle. Talking about intenti...
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![TIFF Review: 'Penguin Bloom' Fails to Fly or Blossom Directed by Glendyn Ivin]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'Penguin Bloom' Fails to Fly or Blossom Directed by Glendyn Ivin Published Sep 15, 2020In 2013, Australian outdoorsy type Sam Bloom and her husband visited Thailand with their three boys. On the first day of their trip, Sam suf...
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![TIFF Review: 'Pieces of a Woman' Offers Pieces of Greatness Directed by Kornél Mundruczó]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'Pieces of a Woman' Offers Pieces of Greatness Directed by Kornél Mundruczó Published Sep 15, 2020Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó, a film festival mainstay thanks to White God and Jupiter's Moon, delivers his English-language debut wi...
