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TIFF 2021: 'The Daughter, 'Benediction' | Tense Thriller, Terence Davies' Drama | Capsule Reviews
Possibly earning the crowning achievement of being the most under-the-radar film at this year's Toronto International Film Festival is a pro
S.J.
Sep 22, 2021


TIFF 2021: 'Drive My Car', 'The Guilty' | Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, Jake Gyllenhaal | Capsule Reviews
You will not drift in my Tokyo, you will simply just Drive My Car (ドライブ・マイ・カー in Japanese). Or you won't actually because the main character
S.J.
Sep 20, 2021


TIFF 2021: 'Encounter', 'The Mad Women's Ball' | Riz Ahmed, Mélanie Laurent | Capsule Reviews
This happens in director-writer Michael Pierce's Encounter, co-written with Joe Barton, which is a sort of sci-fi-action-thriller-drama mash
S.J.
Sep 16, 2021


TIFF 2021: 'The Gravedigger's Wife', 'Murina' | Family Drama, Coming-Of-Age | Capsule Reviews
Taking the viewer to somewhere that movies don't usually go, The Gravedigger's Wife (Guled & Nasra in Finland, Somali title currently unknow
S.J.
Sep 14, 2021


TIFF 2021: 'Aloners', 'As In Heaven' | Gong Seung-Yeon, Religious Drama | Capsule Reviews
Finding confined spaces in Korea is Aloners (혼자 사는 사람들 in Korean), a confident first film from director-writer-editor Hong Sung-eun, which j
S.J.
Sep 12, 2021
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