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  • The Assessment
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    ‘The Assessment’: Toronto Review 483c20

    2024-09-10T09:14:00Z 3c1g40

    Elizabeth Olsen and Alicia Vikander head this dystopian drama in which parenthood really is a test

  • Bring Them Down
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    ‘Bring Them Down’: Toronto Review 5e735x

    2024-09-10T09:10:00Z

    Christopher Abbott and Barry Koeghan embark on a dangerous rivalry in this rural-Ireland set debut

  • Shell
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    ‘Shell’: Toronto Review 34v3u

    2024-09-09T07:13:00Z

    Elisabeth Moss and Kate Hudson will do anything to stay beautiful in Max Minghella’s body horror

  • Relay
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    ‘Relay’: Toronto Review 506655

    2024-09-09T06:55:00Z

    Riz Ahmed and Lily James star in David Mackenzie’s cool whistleblowing drama

  • Heretic
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    ‘Heretic’: Toronto Review 4011l

    2024-09-09T06:46:00Z

    Hugh Grant plays a game of cat-and-mouse with two young Mormon missionaries in this verbose A24 chiller

  • 'Conclave'
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    ‘Conclave’: Toronto Review 313c6u

    2024-09-09T06:23:00Z

    Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow jostle for the Vatican’s top job in this pulpy Robert Harris adaptation

  • On Swift Horses
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    ‘On Swift Horses’: Toronto Review 35z4a

    2024-09-08T08:25:00Z

    Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar-Jones push against traditional boundaries in this slow-burn 1950s-set noir-western

  • 'Nightbitch'
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    ‘Nightbitch’: Toronto Review 38182p

    2024-09-08T07:17:00Z

    Amy Adams takes a walk on the wild side in Marielle Heller’s story of a woman who is going to the dogs

  • The Last Showgirl
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    ‘The Last Showgirl’: Toronto Review 5m5c5r

    2024-09-07T06:54:00Z

    Pamela Anderson enters the awards conversation as an ageing Vegas showgirl in Gia Coppola’s third feature

  • 'We Live In Time’
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    ‘We Live In Time’: Toronto Review 12554f

    2024-09-07T06:17:00Z

    Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield headline John Crowley’s time-hopping relationship tearjerker

  • Sharp Corner
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    ‘Sharp Corner’: Toronto Review 4g2q2q

    2024-09-07T00:20:00Z

    Ben Foster teams up with ’Blackbird’ director Jason Buxton to deliver this portrait of a ‘compelling non-entity’

  • The End
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    ‘The End’: Toronto Review 6p194f

    2024-09-06T22:48:00Z

    Joshua Oppenheimer’s first drama is a singular musical which details how one family es through the end of the world

  • 'The Salt Path'
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    ‘The Salt Path’: Toronto Review 1a4e68

    2024-09-06T06:04:00Z

    Marianne Elliott’s faltering move to the big screen stars Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson

  • A Difficult Year
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    ‘A Difficult Year’: Toronto Review 3w2s3n

    2023-09-14T03:30:00Z

    This French social satire sees two lost souls find some purpose in an environmental action group 

  • Wildcat
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    ‘Wildcat’: Toronto Review 3p4c5d

    2023-09-13T09:13:00Z

    Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya Hawke as Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor

  • Fingernails
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    ‘Fingernails’: Toronto Review 256k3e

    2023-09-13T08:57:00Z

    Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed fight the laws of attraction in this near-future set drama in which love is a science

  • The Burial
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    ‘The Burial’: Toronto Review 2pc34

    2023-09-12T16:39:00Z

    Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones are the odd couple of flashy lawyer and small town client in this mid-90s set crowdpleaser

  • The Holdovers
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    ‘The Holdovers’: Toronto Review 3wc9

    2023-09-12T09:07:00Z

    Alexander Payne reunites with his ‘Sideways’ star Paul Giamatti for this wistful 1970-set character study

  • Pain Hustlers
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    ‘Pain Hustlers’: Toronto Review 3r6za

    2023-09-12T04:00:00Z

    Emily Blunt shines in this otherwise muted true-life tale of a corrupt American pharmaceutical company

  • The Critic
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    ‘The Critic’: Toronto Review 274l16

    2023-09-11T17:35:00Z

    Ian McKellen is a gloriously acerbic 1930s theatre critic in a film that proves too genteel for its central character