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drama

reviews 4 stars, abbie cornish, caleb landry jones, comedy, crime, drama, frances mcdormand, lucas hedges, martin mcdonagh, peter dinklage, reviews, sam rockwell, three billboards outside ebbing missouri, woody harrelson, zeljko ivanek

THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

November 19, 2017

Impulse, regret, and the search for solace

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, alicia silverstone, barry keoghan, bill camp, colin farrell, drama, nicole kidman, raffey cassidy, reviews, sunny suljic, the killing of a sacred deer, yorgos lanthimos

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER

November 14, 2017

A long walk through beautiful rooms, each one filled with ugly moments

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 1 star, black humour, coen brothers, crime, drama, george clooney, julianne moore, karimah westbrook, matt damon, noah jupe, oscar isaac, reviews

SUBURBICON

November 13, 2017

There is a world of difference between a Coen Brothers Film, and merely Coen-esque.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3 stars, angela robinson, bella heathcote, bio-pic, connie britton, drama, luke evans, oliver platt, professor marston and the wonder women, rebecca hall, reviews, women in film, wonder woman

PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN

October 22, 2017

When unconventional love brought three people together, an icon was born.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3 stars, Brian Gleeson, darren aronofsky, domhnall gleeson, drama, ed harris, javier bardem, jennifer lawrence, kristen wiig, michelle pfeiffer, mother!, reviews

MOTHER!

October 5, 2017

Abrasive, presumptuous, abhorrent, and incorrigible…but so are the times we now live in

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 2.5 stars, alan cummings, andrea riseborough, austin stowell, battle of the sexes, bill pullman, drama, elisabeth shue, emma stone, jonathan dayton, reviews, sarah silverman, sports, steve carell, valerie faris, women in film

BATTLE OF THE SEXES

October 1, 2017

Sometimes it’s not about who won the battle, but how they won that matters…

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF bradley whitford, brie larson, comedy, drama, hamish linklater, joan cusack, mamoudou athie, samuel l jackson, tiff 2017, unicorn store, women in film

UNICORN STORE plays TIFF 2017

September 12, 2017

A colourful, joyous, and messy feature debut from director Brie Larson.

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Ryan McNeil
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