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YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER plays TIFF 2021

September 15, 2021

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

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF carmel winters, dara devaney, float like a butterfly, hazel doupe, hilda fay, irish, johnny collins, lalor roddy, tiff, TIFF 2018

FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY plays TIFF 2018

September 16, 2018

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

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, aidan gillen, ben carolan, ferdia walsh-peelo, irish, jack reynor, john carney, lucy boynton, maria doyle kennedy, mark mckenna, musical, reviews, sing street

SING STREET

April 24, 2016

Believe it: a song can save your life.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3 stars, domhnall gleeson, drama, emily bett rickards, emory cohen, irish, jessica pare, jim broadbent, julie walters, lenny abrahamson, reviews, saoirse ronan

BROOKLYN

November 20, 2015

Walking through the golden door is sometimes just the beginning. What awaits on the other side is what makes for stories like BROOKLYN.

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Ryan McNeil
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THE STAG plays TIFF 2013

September 15, 2013

TIFF presents a comedy Hollywood writers wish they were clever enough to come up with.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF charlene mckenna, ciarán mcmenamin, irish, jump, kieron walsh, lalor roddy, martin mccann, nichola burley, packy lee, richard dormer, TIFF 2012, valene kane

JUMP Plays TIFF

September 15, 2012

A clever film about stepping to the edge and taking the leap. One that smiles warmly, asks us to trust it, and assures us that we’ll land safely.

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Ryan McNeil
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Hot Docs Reaction: HIS & HERS

May 4, 2010

As a whimsical score echoes from the soundtrack, HIS & HERS begins with a shot of a newborn infant girl. As it happens, she’s the only woman out of the seventy we meet in the next eighty minutes who doesn’t say a word. Pity – I imagine she has a lot on her mind. The…

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Ryan McNeil
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