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Rather than positioning Les Misérables and Just Mercy as retellings, Ladj Ly and Destin Daniel Cretton engage with modern France’s and America's relationships …
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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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The 20th ImagineNATIVE Film Festival in Toronto featured great Indigenous films from around the world. Highlights included: Vai, Top End Wedding, and Blood …
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Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a beautiful period romance that upends cinematic stereotypes of the artistic muse. Read more TIFF19 coverage …
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An innocent utopia foreshadows horrific violence in Atiq Rahimi’s Our Lady of the Nile, one of the best acquisition titles at TIFF19. Courtesy of …
Short and sweet, Tamar Shavgulidze's Comets is one of the best films still seeking distribution at TIFF19. Still from the film Comets. Courtesy of …
