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Denzel Washington’s ambition to bring all ten of playwright August Wilson’s plays to the screen reaches its peak with 'The Piano Lesson' - a powerful drama with a hint of the supernatural. [TIFF 24]
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'Rez Ball' is a high-profile sports film which heightens the genre, finding great spirituality in its authentic connections to character and culture. [TIFF 24]
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Studio Ponoc gets spirited away with its unrefined Ghibli-esque musings, The Imaginary manages to do so with sincerity making for a much-needed reminder of the necessity of creativity during a time when things seem especially bleak.
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Don’t go in expecting to be blown away, and ‘Damsel ‘ should do just fine. Just make sure you’ve got your plot-armor, and possibly a few glow worms for safe measure, too.
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While it may not rank up there with Seven or Zodiac, ‘The Killer’ is another solid addition to the David Fincher filmography that makes up for its simple story with an excellent lead performance, dark visuals and a sharp and witty screenplay that subverts expectations.
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Thanks to an incredible sense of visual skill and a terrific cast, Spy Kids: Armageddon revives one of the best family franchises in modern film history while still being game for the ultra-ridiculous fun the franchise is known for.
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‘First Play’ serves more as a thriller than a drama though and takes a certain level of comfortability with serious topics to be able to watch. Hopefully, with it’s success on the platform, Netflix will go back to giving more artists a creative domain to showcase their newest works.
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Thanks to a fierce lead performance from Colman Domingo, ‘Rustin’ is a passionate and urgent biopic that is able to balance typical biopic cliches with strong entertainment.
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Despite a predictable story, ‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ remains a fun coming-of-age tale filled with great performances and perfectly-timed comedy.
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Despite some narrative stretches in its latter half, Juel Taylor’s ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ remains an enjoyable watch, thanks to the contributions of John Boyega, Teyonah Parris and Jamie Foxx.
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Sure, there is a talking cricket and a compendium of other colorful characters, but Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio is totally - and tonally - different from any of the other adaptations, which is possibly why it is one of the best films of the year.
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The Good Nurse takes the concept of a slow-burn mystery and fundamentally misunderstands it - instead of sparking a fire and letting it gradually flare into something spectacular, the film piles way too many logs onto a weak flame until all glimpses of light are extinguished and fizzle away.
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Thomas M. Wright’s The Stranger is the latest in a long time of true-crime dramas in Netflix’s extensive catalog, and thanks to the director’s astute eye for detail and dedication to the film’s dark and hopeless atmosphere, it manages to stand out as one of the streaming service’s best.
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Writer-Director Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig return with another stellar murder mystery with Glass Onion. Like its predecessor, this film boasts many of the same successful feats which lead to Knives Out becoming a franchise - An all-star cast firing on all cylinders, sharp direction, plot twists galore, and a whole lot of fun.
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While Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart infuse some much-needed comedic levity in Me Time, its uninspired and unfunny plot makes the case that most Netflix movies aren’t meant to be actively watched.
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J.J. Perry’s Day Shift may not be anything new or original, but it ends up being a memorable balls-to-the-walls vampire-action film that’s best experienced with a group of people (or in a midnight screening.
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Fresh off directing one of the biggest blockbusters in history, Anthony and Joe Russo team up with Netflix, Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans for the streamer’s most expensive attempt at a franchise hopeful to date.
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Featuring an all star cast, and one of the biggest names in comedy, Judd Apatow’s new comedy The Bubble attempts to poke fun at the heartless state of Hollywood blockbusters yet tragically falls victim to the very tropes he’s mocking.
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Following the success of previous partnerships such as ‘Free Guy’, director Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds team up once again for a refreshing and family friendly entry into the time-travel genre with the low stakes Netflix offering, ‘The Adam Project’.
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‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ is a colossal disappointment. It completely dismisses everything that the franchise has done successfully up to this point, crafting a pointless and underdeveloped narrative that acts purely as a backdrop for brutal violence and shoehorned inclusion of basic, nostalgia-driven character work.
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