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Toronto Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
The Toronto Film Festival kicked off September 5 with a multi-move opening night that included David Gordon Green’s family comedy Nutcrackers starring Ben Stiller. It kicked off a slate of world premieres and buzzy movies across 11 days for the 49th edition of one of North America’s biggest film…
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‘The Deb’ Review: Rebel Wilson’s TIFF Closer Is An Uneven But Still Rousing Australian Musical With Hot Young Cast – Toronto Film Festival
With the goal of making a big-screen Australian musical in the vein of movies like Muriel’s Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert that made such an impression on her growing up, Rebel Wilson has in many ways measured up to the delights…
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By Pete Hammond
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‘Superboys Of Malegaon’ Review: Amazon MGM’s Dramedy Blends Bond Of Friends & Bollywood In Poignant Heartfelt True Story — Toronto Film Festival
In 2008, Faiza Ahmad Khan made a documentary, Supermen Of Malegaon, that focused on the making of a parody-style movie by amateur director Nasir Shaikh who found success with his friends in the poor small Indian city of Malegaon, where they used their hometown to copy popular movies, and by doing so gave…
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By Pete Hammond
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‘The Salt Path’ Review: Gillian Anderson & Jason Isaacs On A Walk To Remember – Toronto Film Festival
It is a deceptively simple premise for a two-hour feature film. A married couple who had planned their retirement in a B&B are, due to dire financial circumstances and bum luck, forced out of their home at a point that is, on the surface at least, completely devastating. With their kids now off at school…
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By Pete Hammond
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Mia Farrow & Patti LuPone In ‘The Roommate’: Odd Couple, Odder Play – Broadway Review
Mia Farrow and Patti LuPone make for an appealing and very welcome stage duo in Broadway’s new comedy-drama The Roommate, a pairing that’s selling out the Booth Theatre in an engagement opening tonight.
Unfortunately, their third costar – a beige landline telephone that gets an implausibly large role…
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By Greg Evans
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‘Transformers One’ Review: ‘Toy Story 4’ Director Josh Cooley Constructs A Genuinely Moving Robot Tragedy
The eighth theatrical film in Paramount and Hasbro’s Transformers series, Transformers One returns to the property's purely animated roots. Yet, the story has more humanity than the films that co-star human actors, and ultimately makes you feel the operatic tragedy of Megatron.
In the early days of…
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By Fred Topel
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Presidential Debate TV Review: Kamala Harris Baits Raging Donald Trump Into His Worst Self In Face-Off
From the start, when Kamala Harris walked over to Donald Trump’s side of the presidential debate stage to introduce herself tonight and offer a handshake, the vice president proved to be a very different sort of Democrat than her opponent had ever faced before.
"It is very well known that Donald…
‘William Tell’ Review: Claes Bang Is Right On Target Against Ben Kingsley In This Rousing Adventure And Legendary Tale – Toronto Film Festival
I have to confess I don’t know much about William Tell, the legendary 14th century huntsman who we were told as school children took his bow and arrow and heroically shot an apple off the top of his son’s head. And there is also the infamous “William Tell…
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By Pete Hammond
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‘Heretic’ Review: A Handsomely Devilish Hugh Grant Scares Up A Storm In This Super-Smart Horror – Toronto Film Festival
Hugh Grant has been doing a lot to dismantle his dashingly disheveled '90s rom-com image in the past 15 years or more, but Heretic might be the film to blow it all to kingdom come. Written and directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, a key part of the…
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By Damon Wise
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‘Riff Raff’ Review: Jennifer Coolidge & Bill Murray Stand Out In Wildly Entertaining Dysfunctional Family Crime Comedy – Toronto Film Festival
This summer the Coen Brothers’ ripoffs have been out in force including the August release of Greedy People and the Apple Original Films streaming attraction The Instigators. You might call these, and many others in recent years, Coens-light. But then again…
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By Pete Hammond
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‘The Assessment’ Review: Alicia Vikander Stars In Futuristic Story Where Government Will Decide If You Are Qualified To Have Kids, A Sci-Fi Premise All Too Plausible – Toronto Film Festival
The press have been digging up old interviews with GOP Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance in which he suggests there should be a dividing line in society between those who have children, perhaps even giving those parents more than one vote, and those who…
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By Pete Hammond
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‘The Wild Robot’ Review: Stunning Animation And A Story With Wit, Excitement And Soul Make This Gorgeous Film One From The Heart – Toronto Film Festival
Spawned from the New York Times No. 1 bestseller by Peter Brown that managed to speak to multiple generations, not just kids, DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot proves to be a real gem in the genre that likely will become a classic, and no doubt bring…
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By Pete Hammond
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