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Category: screenings

festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI plays TIFF 2020

Regina King’s feature directorial debut dazzles with four legendary men on one legendary night

Posted on September 11, 2020September 12, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THE SKY IS PINK plays TIFF 2019

TIFF 2019 wrapped for me with joy and tears, as I was taught a valuable lesson about love, life, and loss.

Posted on September 15, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THE LONG WALK plays TIFF 2019

We honour our dead with rituals and preparations, but is it for their next journey or our own?

Posted on September 15, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

SYBIL plays TIFF 2019

Some films are over the top, some play it straight. But when a film tries to do both, things get messy.

Posted on September 14, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

HALA plays TIFF 2019

A tender quest for the truth, and a balance between clashing cultures.

Posted on September 11, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

SAINT MAUD plays TIFF 2019

Horror has a way of using cinema like a blade. Sometimes the cuts are hard, fast, and violent. The viewer is left a bloody and … Read More ›

Posted on September 9, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD plays TIFF 2019

A long time ago, a man went on television and taught us all that we had value in this world, and that if we chose … Read More ›

Posted on September 9, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

LOVE ME TENDER plays TIFF 2019

On the anxieties of remaining inside, and the strange adventures that await outside.

Posted on September 8, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

HOW TO BUILD A GIRL plays TIFF 2019

A film made this critic’s heart burst with joy. Send flowers…and records.

Posted on September 7, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

TAMMY’S ALWAYS DYING plays TIFF 2019

As the lights came up at the TIFF ’19 premiere screening of TAMMY’S ALWAYS DYING, screenwriter Joanne Sarazen expressed her desire to portray a family … Read More ›

Posted on September 6, 2019September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

DESTROYER plays TIFF 2018

Karyn Kusama returns with the next great Los Angeles cop story.

Posted on September 16, 2018November 15, 2018
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY plays TIFF 2018

Trust yourself and your opponent, and keep getting up off that mat.

Posted on September 16, 2018October 25, 2018

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