Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman once said, “no art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.” To many of us,…
TIFF 2021
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The 2021 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival offered numerous different avenues for movie watching. Audiences and critics alike got to experience the newest in film at the theaters, online, and even at several…
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DramaReviews
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘Ahed’s Knee’
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesNadav Lapid’s Synonyms caused quite a stir when it unexpectedly took out the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 2019. The film loosely based on Lapid’s own life about an Israeli man who flees…
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ReviewsScience Fiction
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘Encounter’
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesAfter a number of standout supporting roles over the last half a decade, Riz Ahmed‘s wiry unpredictability and genuine pathos he injects into his performances has seen him evolve into a leading man with an…
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FantasyReviews
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘Kicking Blood’
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesCinema has given us many incarnations and interpretations of the vampire mythos since F.W Murnau’s Nosferatu almost a century ago. We’ve seen them portrayed as everything from baroque aristocrats, mindless parasitic monsters, mysterious outsiders in…