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TIFF23 Day 2

By: Dustin ChaseThe international component of The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF23)has vast offerings and really traversed the map on day two of the festival. Day 2 of TIFF23, has another replay from Cannes earlier this year and the likely submission from Italy for the Academy Awards international submission. “Kidnapped” (Rapito) is an operatic-style drama detailing […]

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Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

Director David Yates and screenwriter J.K. Rowling can’t conjure enough secrets to keep their fledgling Harry Potter spinoff interesting. A continuation from the previous two films, with even more Hogwarts and Dumbledore this time around, “The Secrets of Dumbledore” is a long-winded slog. Eddie Redmayne’s Newt Scamander, the charming focal point of the first film,

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Another Round

 Another Round…as in another round of alcohol. A group of four teachers at a Danish gymnasium going through bouts of alienation—especially one, Martin (Mikkelsen.  The other three, spearheaded by the psychology professor, Nikolaj (Millang), decide to embark on an experiment aimed to get them out of the doldrums.  The hypothesis of this unorthodox study derived from Norwegian psychiatrist

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Arctic

Can a film be both really good and yet stereotypical in every way? “Arctic” is the best film of 2019, so far.  The survival thriller received a ten-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival, but there isn’t much to celebrate in this compact 90-minute thriller that you can’t find elsewhere. With so little dialogue,

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