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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Peter Farrelly’s ‘Green Book’

Posted on September 13, 2018 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – You don’t expect gentleness and warmth from one of the Farrelly Brothers but that’s exactly what you get in Peter Farrelly’s crowd-pleasing fact-based film ‘Green Book’. Viggo Mortensen and Mahersaha Ali complement each other as … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Brady Corbet’s ‘Vox Lux’

Posted on September 11, 2018 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – Just as in ‘Jackie’ two years ago, Natalie Portman gives a scintillating performance of a driven and complicated woman in a not very successful picture. Director and screenwriter Brady Corbet’s ‘Vox Lux’, which tells of … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Damien Chazelle’s ‘First Man’

Posted on September 10, 2018 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – From the very first image of a man in a narrow tin bucket rattling horribly and bouncing at furiously high speed off the atmosphere, Damien Chazelle’s terrific ‘First Man’ focuses on the terrifyingly claustrophobic nature … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Cold War’

Posted on September 8, 2018 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘Cold War’ is a masterpiece. It’s the story of two lovers whose struggle to be together evokes the complexities of life in Poland following World War II as the richness, beauty and contradictions … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Bradley Cooper’s ‘A Star Is Born’

Posted on September 8, 2018 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – Enjoyment of Bradley Cooper’s reimagined ‘A Star is Born’ depends almost entirely on having a taste for the singing of Lady Gaga. Her many fans will surely love it. For those less enamoured, probably not. … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’

Posted on September 7, 2018 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – British director Mike Leigh’s latest, ‘Peterloo’, is a handsome period piece about a terrible incident in British history following victory over Napoleon at Waterloo when working class protestors in a 19th century English town were cut … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Bardem, Cruz in ‘Everybody Knows’

Posted on September 6, 2018 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – Married Spanish Oscar-winners Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have become a reliable partnership onscreen and their latest feature together, ‘Everybody Knows’, is a bright addition to their canon.

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Scott Cooper’s ‘Hostiles’

Posted on September 16, 2017 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – Scott Cooper opens his muscular Western tale “Hostiles” with a horrifying sequence of slaughter and he sustains a palpable level of dread as a group of travellers journey hundreds of miles through some of the … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Molly’s Game’

Posted on September 15, 2017 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – Aaron Sorkin’s “Molly’s Game” assumes that to watch obnoxious rich men play the most boring form of poker is actually entertaining. Its story of a glamorous woman whose attempts to exploit the bad behaviour of … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: ‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’

Posted on September 14, 2017 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” is so full of surprises that when Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), carries an open bottle of wine across a restaurant toward a table where her ex-husband sits with his pretty young … Continue reading →

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