TIFF

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  'Motherless Brooklyn' Finds Political Potency in 1950s Film Noir

  Directed by Edward Norton

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2019

  On the surface, Motherless Brooklyn is loving tribute to 1950s film noir. There's a hardscrabble detective with debilitating Tourette's, an...

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  'Waves' Is a Five-Act Tragedy Worthy of the Bard

  Directed by Trey Edward Shults

  PUBLISHED Oct 29, 2019

  Y'know that stress dream where you're back at school, and you realize that you completely forgot about one of your courses, and suddenly it...

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  'Pain and Glory' Explores the Bittersweet Beauty of Aging

  Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2019

  Life is convoluted and messy, and that perhaps explains why Pain and Glory's account of an ailing filmmaker is a bit jumbled.   Salvador Ma...

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  'Parasite' One-Ups 'Snowpiercer' as Bong Joon-ho's Masterpiece on Class Struggle

  Directed by Bong Joon-ho

  PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2019

  Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho nailed class struggle commentary with 2013 post-apocalyptic epic Snowpiercer, and he's miraculously done it agai...

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  'The Lighthouse' Is a Gripping, Smartly Stylized Descent into Madness

  Directed by Robert Eggers

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2019

  Robert Eggers bounded onto the horror scene with his 2016 directorial debut, The Witch, and furthers his fascination with the depravity of...

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  'Jojo Rabbit' Is a Full-Blown World War II Film Wrapped in a Warm Comedy

  Directed by Taika Waititi

  PUBLISHED Oct 17, 2019

  A young boy growing up in Nazi Germany finds himself caught between the ethnic nationalism he's been indoctrinated by and a resistance plot...

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  Natalie Portman's 'Lucy in the Sky' Flounders on the Launchpad

  Directed by Noah Hawley

  PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2019

  Lucy in the Sky isn't about an astronaut; it's about a selfish jerk going through an existential crisis. And even though this story of a NA...

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  'Joker' Is Brilliantly Acted and Incredibly Uncomfortable

  Directed by Todd Phillips

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2019

  When the guy who created The Hangover trilogy signed up to direct a comic book movie, who could have ever guessed it would lead to somethin...