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[TIFF Review] Passion

Five years after his last foray behind the camera, writer/director Brian De Palma looks to take some of the alternative devices used to film Redacted and combin...

[TIFF Review] The Company You Keep

In Robert Redford and Lem Dobbs' adaptation of Neil Gordon's novel The Company You Keep, the personal futures fought for by the militant Weather Underground dur...

[TIFF Review] Silver Linings Playbook

I know it's misguided, but my interest in David O. Russell films kind of ended after The Fighter. This was a guy who used to pave his own path with challenging ...

[TIFF Review] Aftershock

When opening credits begin with 'an Eli Roth film', you should know what to expect. While not quite his creatively—it's directed by Nicolás López—the torture po...

[TIFF Review] Byzantium

There’s a moment in Neil Jordan’s Byzantium when the strange family unit — mother Clara, daughter Eleanor, and new “boyfriend” Noel — watch what seems to be an ...