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Author: Ryan McNeil

festivals, reactions, TIFF antonia thomas, dexter fletcher, freya mavor, george mackay, jane horrocks, jason flemyng, kevin guthrie, musical, peter mullan, sunshine on leith, the proclaimers, TIFF 2013

SUNSHINE ON LEITH plays TIFF 2013

September 18, 2013

Thought the book was written
Thought the game had ended
Thought the song was sung
…but then TIFF sung another

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF anne le ny, attila marcel, bernadette lafont, fanny touron, foreign film, french, guillaume gouix, hélène vincent, sylvain chomet, TIFF 2013

ATTILA MARCEL plays TIFF 2013

September 18, 2013

Some people say it best when they say nothing at all.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF clark gregg, gattlin griffith, jason reitman, josh brolin, kate winslet, labor day, TIFF 2013, tobey maguire

LABOR DAY plays TIFF 2013

September 17, 2013

Jason Reitman returns to the spot of his greatest successes with his least “Jason Reitman Film” yet.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF brian glazer, scarlett johansson, sci-fi, TIFF 2013, under the skin

UNDER THE SKIN plays TIFF 2013

September 17, 2013

Science fiction has a tendency to be overly dense and inaccessible at times. This was one of those times.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF aj bowen, amy seimetz, gene jones, joe swanberg, kentucker audley, the sacrament, ti west, TIFF 2013

THE SACRAMENT plays TIFF 2013

September 16, 2013

Ti West takes us down an isolated road to meet some true believers. The question is whether they believe in the right thing, or the right man.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF claudia sainte-luce, foreign film, Lisa Owen, mexican, Sonia Franco, the amazing catfish, TIFF 2013, Wendy Guillén, Ximena Ayala

THE AMAZING CATFISH plays TIFF 2013

September 16, 2013

We don’t get to choose our family, but sometimes a family is kind enough to reach out and choose us.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF Cho Jae-hyun, foreign film, kim ki-duk, korean, Lee Eun-woo, Seo Young-ju, TIFF 2013

MOEBIUS plays TIFF 2013

September 16, 2013

Easily the craziest film I watched all week – one very messed up look at the sexual politics of the family dynamic.

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Ryan McNeil
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