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women in film

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
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
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF ainsley gardiner, awanui simich-pene, briar grace-smith, casey kaa, chelsea cohen, katie wolfe, new zealand, paula jones, renae maihi, tiff 2017, waru, women in film

WARU plays TIFF 2017

September 11, 2017

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

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Ryan McNeil
festivals, reactions, Ryan Recommends, screenings, TIFF brady jandreau, chloe zhao, the rider, tiff, tiff 2017, women in film

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
reviews 3 stars, algee smith, anthony mackie, detroit, drama, hannah murray, jason mitchell, kaitlyn dever, kathryn bigelow, reviews, will poulter, women in film

DETROIT

August 13, 2017

How did we get here?

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, addison riecke, angourie rice, colin farrell, drama, elle fanning, emma howard, kirsten dunst, nicole kidman, oona laurence, reviews, sofia coppola, the beguiled, women in film

THE BEGUILED

July 6, 2017

True violence comes from the quiet backswing of the blade – not the grunt as it is brought down

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Ryan McNeil
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