All articles by Robert Daniels
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Reviews‘Wishful Thinking’ review: Maya Hawke and Lewis Pullman feel the power of love in potent SXSW winner
The feature debut of writer/director Graham Parkes won SXSW’s narrative feature prize
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Reviews‘DreamQuil’ review: Elizabeth Banks shoulders dual role in detached retro-futuristic drama
The feature debut from visual artist Alex Prager also stars John C Reilly, Kathryn Newton and Juliette Lewis
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Reviews‘Forbidden Fruits’ review: Horror comedy about Texas teen witches casts a campy, playful spell
Diablo Cody produces Meredith Alloway’s SXSW premiere
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Reviews‘Hokum’ review: Adam Scott embarks on a nightmarish trip in chilling horror from Ireland’s Damian McCarthy
The filmmaker’s follow-up to ’Oddity’ premieres at SXSW before May theatrical opening
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Reviews‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ review: Vince Vaughn and James Marsden head riotous time travel comedy
BenDavid Grabinski’s SXSW premiere also stars Eliza González and Keith David
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Reviews‘Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come’ review: Samara Weaving returns in bloody, bland horror sequel
SXSW premiere also stars David Cronenberg, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood
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Reviews‘I Love Boosters’ review: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie and Taylour Paige anchor Boots Riley’s anarchic SXSW opener
LaKeith Stanfield, Demi Moore and Don Cheadle also star in riotous pro-union comedy
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Reviews‘Tutu’ review: Sam Pollard doc is galvanizing study of South African leader Desmond Tutu
Pollard’s incisive work follows ’MLK/FBI’ and ’Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me’
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Reviews‘Anemone’ review: Daniel Day-Lewis returns to the big screen in family drama directed by his son
Sean Bean and Samantha Morton also star in the feature debut of Ronan Day-Lewis
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Reviews‘Steal Away’ review: Clement Virgo’s ambitious afrofuturist thriller explores sexual awakening
The Canadian director’s genre-bending drama stars Angourie Rice and Mallori Johnson
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Reviews‘& Sons’ review: Bill Nighy’s disheveled alcoholic author heads intriguing family drama
Imelda Staunton, Johnny Flynn and George MacKay also star in Pablo Trapero’s English-language feature debut
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Reviews‘Glenrothan’ review: Actor Brian Cox’s directorial debut is overworked Scottish family drama
Cox also stars opposite Alan Cumming in cliched tale of two estranged brothers reuniting
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Reviews‘Couture’ review: Angelina Jolie is a tour de force in Alice Winocour’s Paris fashion drama
Jolie stars as a Paris Fashion Week filmmaker battling cancer in intricate Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘The Christophers’ review: Steven Soderbergh’s witty chamber piece stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel
The director’s chatty, catty two-hander premieres in Toronto
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Reviews‘Eternity’ review: Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner head thin afterlife romcom
Director David Freyne’s soulless Toronto title is lifted by sparky supporting performances from Da’Vine Joy Randolph and John Early
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Reviews‘Good News’ review: Byun Sung-hyun turns 1970 hijacking into satirical Netflix thriller
Sul Kyung-gu stars in the ‘Kill Boksoon’ director’s kinetic dramatisation of the hijacking of Japanese Airlines Flight 351
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Reviews‘Rental Family’ review: Brendan Fraser shines as a lost soul seeking connection in Tokyo-set drama
Director Hikari follows up her 2019 debut ‘37 Seconds’ with tale of American actor adrift in Japan
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Reviews'California Schemin'' review: James McAvoy directorial debut is engaging real-life Scottish rap tale
McAvoy tells the true story of two Dundee rappers who pretended to be American duo Silibil N’ Brains
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Reviews‘Good Fortune’ review: Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves join director-star Aziz Ansari in impressive debut
Sandra Oh and Keke Palmer round out the cast for Ansari’s body-swap comedy, which premieres in Toronto
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Reviews‘Christy’ review: Sydney Sweeney is a knockout in David Michôd’s broad boxing biopic
Toronto premiere follows the tumultous life of boxer Christy Martin and her abusive trainer husband