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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'A Dangerous Method'

David Cronenberg's latest is a chilly study of the creative and competitive triangle between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), and the lesser-known Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightly) in the early years of the 20th century.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'The Day'

Can a cannibal ever truly be redeemed? For the answer to this Augustinian question I guess you could watch The Day, but it's probably better to just let that be one of life's unaswerables.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Into the Abyss'

In his documentaries especially, Herzog throws the supposed regulations out completely, ditching any pretense toward objectivity or “documentation” for a decidedly first-person perspective

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Sons of Norway'

Sons of Norway, mockingly named after a Norwegian cultural heritage preservation society, tells the story of the role punk music and culture influenced a young boy on the cusp of his adolescence in 1978.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'The Descendants'

This is a mature and well-executed study of what happens when people die and leave us with their messes to clean up.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Kill List'

Kill List is the single most demented horror film I have seen in years, and maybe also the very best.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Martha Marcy May Marlene'

An exquisite, terrifying, and marvelously vertiginous film, Martha Marcy May Marlene is my favourite movie of the Festival, and may stand up as my favourite picture of the year.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Elles'

Although in some ways a seductive feminist study of sex, power, and commerce -- for Binoche is writing this article for money, we cannot forget -- the overall impression by film's end is one of bewilderment rather than contemplation.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Dark Horse'

Todd Solondz (Happiness, Life During Wartime) understands tackiness on a deeper level than just about everyone else in the business besides John Waters.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'The Kid With a Bike'

This quiet little tour de force about a troubled young boy has bewitched the critics at this year's Festival.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Take This Waltz'

Take This Waltz is set in Polley's native Toronto and it makes wide use of that city's funky west end for its locations and local musicians for its score (a real treat for this Torontonian).

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Pearl Jam Twenty'

Documentaries made by non-documentarians can be exhilarating since, new to the form, the filmmakers tend to break old rules and push into interesting territory. But they can also wind up looking something like Pearl Jam Twenty.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'The Ides of March'

This dark, angry movie wants to be a smart, keep-you-guessing political thriller but winds up a wildly improbable and deeply cynical melodrama.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Melancholia'

"The earth is evil. We don't need to grieve for it." So declares a luminous Kirsten Dunst in Danish provocateur Lars von Trier's best and most powerful film yet.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Moneyball'

Expect Brad Pitt to get some award season attention for his playful portrayal of real life Oakland A's GM Billy Beane, a man trying to find a way to win a game with a stacked deck.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Where Do We Go Now?'

An enchanting, brilliant, and heartbreaking film about civil war and its indelible legacy, this Lebanese masterwork utterly slayed me.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia'

A languid, patience-testing three-hour police procedural that spends its entire first 90 minutes in the literal (and, of course, figurative) dark, this one is not for everyone.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Lipstikka'

The story of two Palestinian refugees (one Christian and one Muslim) and their tumultuous, tortured relationship over 30 years, this provocative picture almost works.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Think of Me'

Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) gives a breakout film performance as a single mother struggling to make ends meet in seedy Las Vegas.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'The Loneliest Planet'

This archetypal art house film follows two mostly non-verbal tourists as they hike through the Caucuses under mostly overcast skies.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'My Worst Nightmare'

Quite uncomfortably, the film uses class stereotypes aggressively and persistently, relying upon them as scaffolding for this faux-existential narrative about awakening and self-actualization.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'The Island President'

This is one of those documentaries designed to make you march out of the theatre and do something to change the world.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2011: 'Burning Man'

This is a perfectly devastating Australian film about the horror of loss and the futility of refusing to face up to grief.

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11 Things to Look Forward to at the Toronto International Film Festival

A mix of art house experiments, mainstream confections, grand costume dramas, sex-soaked character studies, apocalyptic horror, intimate human drama, political satires, rock 'n' roll documentaries, and a little Werner Herzog for good measure.

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Toronto International Film Festival 08: Day Five

This is the end, my friends. TIFF 08 fades away with a whimper and few Oscar prospects.

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Toronto International Film Festival 08: Day Four

Mazur reviews (and likes) three upcoming releases from Toronto that don't star women in the lead roles. Mickey Rourke for the Oscar?! What is the world coming to?

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Toronto International Film Festival 08: Day Three

Multiculturalism is fun! Familial tensions, not so much...

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Toronto International Film Festival 2008: Day One

Cutting My Teeth and My Venison: A Introductory Guide to TIFF 08!


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