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Category: reactions

Brief thoughts and recaps on films seen in theatres – usually in a festival environment. While no ratings are assigned, these reactions are sometimes expanded into full reviews later.

reactions, TIFF

BIG GAME plays TIFF 2014

It’s not enough to act fun, sometimes you actually have to be fun.

Posted on September 8, 2014September 11, 2014
festivals, reactions, TIFF

KAHLIL GIBRAN’S THE PROPHET plays TIFF 2014

Forget about a story for a moment, and give yourself over to poetry.

Posted on September 7, 2014September 13, 2014
reactions, TIFF

COMING HOME (Gui lai) plays TIFF 2014

The poetry of true love and heartbreak, as only Zhang Yimou can recite.

Posted on September 6, 2014September 9, 2014
reactions, TIFF

ST. VINCENT plays TIFF 2014

When a master picks up his instrument, you seldom care what the master chooses to play.

Posted on September 6, 2014October 18, 2014
reactions, TIFF

THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA plays TIFF 2014

Takahata breathes new life into an ancient Japanese folk-talk, and leaves us wondering if he is taking a bow in the process.

Posted on September 6, 2014September 8, 2014
festivals, reactions, TIFF

SHREW’S NEST (MUSARAÑOS) plays TIFF 2014

My TIFF adventure begins with a grisly bedtime story from a country that is fast becoming the best at telling grisly bedtime stories.

Posted on September 5, 2014September 7, 2014
reactions

FRANK

A few small thoughts on the guy in the big head

Posted on August 24, 2014August 30, 2014
festivals, nxne, reactions

LIES I TOLD MY LITTLE SISTER plays NXNE 2014

Families don’t come with baggage, they come with steamer trunks.

Posted on June 15, 2014June 20, 2014
festivals, nxne, reactions

LET’S RUIN IT WITH BABIES plays NXNE 2014

Why start a family when you can run a mobile karaoke lounge?

Posted on June 14, 2014June 19, 2014
festivals, nxne, reactions

WHOOPS! plays NXNE 2014

Mend a torn seam. Run out for ice cream. Hide a body. All in the contract of a modern marriage.

Posted on June 13, 2014June 17, 2014
nxne, reactions, site news

LA VOZ DE LOS SILENCIADOS plays NXNE 2014

NXNE returns with a new outlook on film, getting the ball rolling with a film that forces us to listen closely.

Posted on June 12, 2014June 17, 2014
festivals, hot docs, reactions

THE SHEIK plays Hot Docs 2014

He will humble you…now that he’s done being humbled himself.

Posted on May 4, 2014May 9, 2014

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