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Wicked Little Town – TIFF 2017 pt. i 

September 14, 2017

Norm joins me on the wall as TIFF 2017 coverage begins.

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF foreign film, french, gael garcia bernal, if you saw his heart, joan chemla, marine vacth, nahuel pérez, si tu voyais son coeur, tiff, tiff 2017, women in film

IF YOU SAW HIS HEART plays TIFF 2017

September 13, 2017

A confessional, amorous, and honest cinematic letter from a promising new director.

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Ryan McNeil
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THE RIDER plays TIFF 2017

September 10, 2017

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

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF bahar nouhian, canadian film, leili rashidi, mahour jabbari, sadaf foroughi, tiff, tiff 2017, women in film

AVA plays TIFF 2017

September 9, 2017

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

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Ryan McNeil
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High Ticket Attractions: My TIFF 2017 Selections

August 30, 2017

Once more unto the breach, dear friends…

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Ryan McNeil
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OKAFOR’S LAW plays TIFF 2016

September 18, 2016

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

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF claudia sainte-luce, foreign film, jimmy jean-louis, mexican, the empty box, tiff, tiff 2016

THE EMPTY BOX plays TIFF 2016

September 18, 2016

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

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Ryan McNeil
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