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Category: screenings

festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

WARU plays TIFF 2017

Eight women come together to create an intricate tapestry of the angst in the wake of one boy’s death.

Posted on September 11, 2017September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, Ryan Recommends, screenings, TIFF

THE RIDER plays TIFF 2017

An elegy for broken dreams and shattered purpose from director ChloƩ Zhao

Posted on September 10, 2017July 2, 2019
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

AVA plays TIFF 2017

A character stares out at us while a film concludes, and seems to be silently ask us: When will this all end?

Posted on September 9, 2017September 15, 2017
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

OKAFOR’S LAW plays TIFF 2016

If boys will be boys, what does it take to grow into a man?

Posted on September 18, 2016November 8, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THE EMPTY BOX plays TIFF 2016

No matter how much we think we are ready for the end, we so seldom are.

Posted on September 18, 2016September 26, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

BELOW HER MOUTH plays TIFF 2016

April Mullen presents a pretty picture about love, sex, and the blank spaces in-between.

Posted on September 17, 2016September 24, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

JEAN OF THE JONSES plays TIFF 2016

Welcome to Jones’ family dinner. Grab a plate, and get comfy…shit’s about to get real.

Posted on September 16, 2016September 12, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THE BAD BATCH plays TIFF 2016

The woman behind A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT dares you to wander into the desert and take another bite.

Posted on September 14, 2016September 18, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

AMERICAN HONEY plays Tiff 2016

“Steady as a preacher, free as a weed…” can both be exploited for American need.

Posted on September 13, 2016September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

BUSTER’S MAL HEART plays TIFF 2016

When paying one’s dues turns into overtaxation, how long until one is completely bankrupt?

Posted on September 12, 2016September 18, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

A UNITED KINGDOM plays TIFF 2016

It’s the small, subtle moments that make the biggest movies so memorable.

Posted on September 11, 2016September 15, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

WEREWOLF plays TIFF 2016

When a film rubs you the wrong way, is it because you don’t like it? Or because you don’t like how it makes you feel?

Posted on September 10, 2016September 13, 2016

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