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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.

festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

SOLO plays TIFF 2023

Why choose between being handsome and gorgeous, when one can be both?

Posted on September 12, 2023September 11, 2023
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

SPIRIT OF ECSTASY plays TIFF 2023

Chasing our dreams can be intimidating, but we mustn’t be afraid to be afraid.

Posted on September 11, 2023September 11, 2023
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

PLAN 75 plays TIFF 2022

If you gotta go – and let’s be clear, we ALL gotta go – why not go in style?

Posted on September 17, 2022September 17, 2022
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

SAINT OMER plays TIFF 2022

Sometimes a film will look you in the eye and ask you to search your soul.

Posted on September 17, 2022September 17, 2022
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

TORA’S HUSBAND plays TIFF 2022

It’s already time to retrace our steps, and understand how we survived.

Posted on September 16, 2022September 16, 2022
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

WOMEN TALKING plays TIFF 2022

Sarah Polley returns with a story that started before we were born, in the hopes that the next generations story will be different.

Posted on September 14, 2022September 16, 2022
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

NANNY plays TIFF 2022

Who understands the true nature of horror better than black women?

Posted on September 13, 2022September 13, 2022
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

LOVE AND MATHEMATICS plays TIFF 2022

Claudia Sainte-Luce channels David Byrne and listens as her characters as “My God, how did I get here?”

Posted on September 12, 2022September 12, 2022
festivals, reactions, TIFF

I’M YOUR MAN plays TIFF 2021

At the end of the day, who really wants “the perfect man”?

Posted on September 16, 2021September 15, 2021
festivals, reactions, TIFF

YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER plays TIFF 2021

It doesn’t have to be Halloween to wear a mask.

Posted on September 15, 2021September 15, 2021
festivals, reactions, TIFF

THE MAD WOMEN’S BALL plays TIFF 2021

Who is sane and who is sound is often only determined by who signs the papers and holds the keys.

Posted on September 14, 2021September 14, 2021
festivals, reactions, TIFF

VIOLET plays TIFF 2021

Justine Bateman answers the question many of us ask about certain anxious people in our lives: “What were they thinking?”

Posted on September 13, 2021September 12, 2021

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