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jim broadbent

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
reactions, screenings, TIFF brooklyn, domhnall gleeson, emory cohen, jessica pare, jim broadbent, john crowley, julie walters, nick hornby, saoirse ronan, TIFF 2015

BROOKLYN plays TIFF 2015

September 15, 2015

Something sweet in the midst of all this festival heaviness.

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Ryan McNeil
trailers action, big game, felicity huffman, jalmari helander, jim broadbent, onni tommila, ray stevenson, samuel l jackson, ted levine, trailers, victor garber

Thunder On the Mountain: BIG GAME Trailer

January 6, 2015

Time to party like it’s 1995…

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Ryan McNeil
reactions, TIFF action, big game, felicity huffman, jalmari helander, jim broadbent, ray stevenson, samuel l jackson, TIFF 2014, victor garber

BIG GAME plays TIFF 2014

September 8, 2014

It’s not enough to act fun, sometimes you actually have to be fun.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, andy wachowski, ben whishaw, cloud atlas, david gyasi, halle berry, hugh grant, hugo weaving, jim broadbent, jim sturgess, keith david, lana wachowski, sci-fi, susan sarandon, tom hanks, tom tykwer, xun zhou

CLOUD ATLAS

October 26, 2012

An audacious new film poses the theory that our lives are not our own: That we are bound to others – past and present. Can it make its case with grace? Or miss the mark from excess?

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, TIFF ben wishaw, cloud atlas, david gyashi, halle berry, hugh grant, hugo weaving, jim broadbent, jim sturgess, sci-fi, susan sarandon, the wachowskis, TIFF 2012, tom hanks, tom tykwer, xun zhou

CLOUD ATLAS Plays TIFF 2012

September 16, 2012

The creators of RUN LOLA RUN and THE MATRIX have come together on a project that is amazingly venturesome.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews .5 stars, alexandra roach, bio-pic, drama, jim broadbent, meryl streep

THE IRON LADY

February 12, 2012

Over the last ten or twelve years, Meryl Streep has given moviegoers some of the very best performances they have ever witnessed. This isn’t one of them.

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Ryan McNeil
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