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  • 30 Minutes on: “It” (2017)

    by - Sep 10, 2017
    The new version of Stephen King’s “It” isn’t a great movie, but it’s a great audience movie. And it has been made with a big screen in mind. The film’s moments of suspense and shock have...
  • The Killing of a Sacred Deer

    by - Sep 10, 2017
    A man who plays god for a living meets a boy who chooses to play devil in Yorgos Lanthimos’ chilling and breathtaking “The Killing of a Sacred Deer.” Once again, as he did with “The Lobster,”...
  • Stronger

    by - Sep 10, 2017
    This review was filed from the Toronto International Film Festival.There’s a great scene a little over halfway through David Gordon Green’s “Stronger,” in which Jeff Bauman, who lost both of his legs just above the knee...
  • The Greatest Show on Earth: Recap of the 2017 Telluride Film Festival

    by - Sep 10, 2017
    Ah, the Show. At the beginning, greedily, you want to see everything. At the end, you tot up your totals—16 films over 4 days, with not one you wished you hadn’t seen, and several movies that...
  • TIFF 2017: “I Tonya,” “On Chesil Beach,” “The Lodgers,” “1%”

    by - Sep 9, 2017
    The premieres continued on the first Friday of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival, including new films starring Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Steve Buscemi, Jason Sudeikis, Jessica Chastain, Jake Gyllenhaal, and many more. We’ll get to...
  • HBO Takes Viewers Back to 42nd Street with “The Deuce”

    by - Sep 9, 2017
    Premiering this Sunday night on HBO, season one of “The Deuce” is an epic series that’s essentially about a group of small business owners trying to make their way in the seediest parts of New York...
  • The Florida Project

    by - Sep 9, 2017
    This review was filed from the Toronto International Film Festival.It’s hard to describe “The Florida Project” in a way that conveys its greatness without making it sound maudlin and sentimental. It is one of those films...
  • TIFF 2017: “The Square,” “Happy End,” “The Other Side of Hope”

    by - Sep 8, 2017
    The first couple days of Toronto always feature a dozen or so films that earned buzz at festivals earlier in the year like Sundance, Berlin and Cannes. It’s a place for movies like “Call Me By...
  • Trophy

    by - Sep 8, 2017
    Grown men cry in “Trophy,” a documentary about the wildlife hunting industry. One is a manager at a big game preserve who takes tourists to shoot African elephants. He’s a big, tough-looking fellow, but as he...
  • TIFF 2017: “Borg/McEnroe,” “Loveless,” “A Ciambra”

    by - Sep 8, 2017
    Wimbledon 1980 was a landmark event in sports history. Bjorn Borg was one of the most famous athletes in the world, and he was the favorite to win the biggest tennis tournament there is for the...