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JJenn The EditorSeptember 4, 2025

Come to TIFF 2025 With Me!

Watch this Space. I'm going to be live-reporting my TIFF experience on this thread! Check back for celeb-sightings, instant film reactions, and general festival chaos reports. Tonight I have the Canadiana double feature…

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SSebby DSeptember 27, 2024

Carnival is Over Mini-Review #TIFF2024

CW: this review contains discussion of sexual violence Carnival is Over certainly starts strong. Regina (Leandra Leal) and Valério (Pêpê Rapazote) are a couple unhappy with their social standing. Valério lives in the…

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SSebby DSeptember 26, 2024

The Piano Lesson Mini-Review #TIFF2024

In 2015, Denzel Washington announced that he’d be producing film adaptations of 10 plays by the legendary playwright August Wilson. The first was 2016’s Fences, directed by and starring Washington. The film was a…

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SSebby DSeptember 26, 2024

Daniela Forever Mini-Review #TIFF2024

Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo was last at TIFF in 2016, with a monster movie called Colossal. Colossal’s story was unique and memorable. It used giant Kaiju monsters as metaphors in a small-scale story of a woman…

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SSebby DSeptember 25, 2024

Space Cowboy Mini-Review #TIFF2024

Half-way through Space Cowboy, I heard the sound of snores coming from behind me. I turned around, and sure enough, an audience member had fallen asleep. For a film with this subject matter, this is an unforgivable…

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SSebby DSeptember 25, 2024

Vice is Broke Mini Review #TIFF2024

“This is not a hit piece.” Eddie Huang assures a former friend near the end of Vice is Broke. Uhhhhhh….. I was unfamiliar with Huang before seeing the film, but Vice is Broke is a good introduction. Huang was a…

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SSebby DSeptember 24, 2024

Luckiest Man in America Mini-Review #TIFF2024

Before my TIFF screening of The Luckiest Man in America, there was a video message. Paul Walter Hauser, star of the film, had recorded a greeting for the premiere of the film. Much of the cast was in attendance, but…

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SSebby DSeptember 24, 2024

Bird Mini-Review #TIFF2024

Hmmm. Bird is the first of Andrea Arnold’s films that I’ve seen, and I’m not sure it was the best introduction. As a 12 year-old first getting into film, I was dimly aware that Arnold’s 2009 film Fish Tank was receiving…

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SSebby DSeptember 24, 2024

Rap World Mini-Review #TIFF2024

Sometimes I think to myself: who are the funniest people in the world? Or at least, who will we look back on as the defining comedians of our era? The names Eric Andre, Nathan Fielder, & Patti Harrison come to mind…

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SSebby DSeptember 23, 2024

Local Legends Mini-Review #TIFF2024

Ok this one requires some context. In fact, this review will be mostly context. To talk about Local Legends, I first have to talk about Will Sloan. Sloan is a writer from Toronto, and is one of only three people who’s…

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