Maïmouna Doucouré's Cuties is an often compelling crowd-pleaser, if somewhat under-baked, which looks at how girls end up becoming over-sexualized at a young …
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Alex Heeney
Review: What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael is a good introduction to the legendary film critic, but ignores much of the context and legacy of her work. Pauline …
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Sam Mendes’s 1917 is breathtaking in every way
A chamber drama tucked inside an exquisitely rendered war epic, Sam Mendes's 1917 is a breathtaking thriller with perfect pacing. George MacKay as Schofield …
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Alla Kovgan on translating dance onscreen in Cunningham
Alla Kovgan discusses restaging and shooting dance excerpts for her 3D doc Cunningham, including creating the camera choreography and capturing the …
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A closer look at the TIFF 2019 Platform Competition
Proxima and My Zoe set the bar for what we should expect from female characters in film in the TIFF19 Platform Competition, its flagship program for emerging …
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TIFF’s Platform Competition is having an identity crisis
Is TIFF's Platform Competition helping to spotlight great under-the-radar world cinema or merely taking the spotlight away from worthier titles? TIFF’s …
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