All Special Presentations articles – Page 3
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Reviews‘The Burial’: Toronto Review
Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones are the odd couple of flashy lawyer and small town client in this mid-90s set crowdpleaser
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Reviews‘The Holdovers’: Toronto Review
Alexander Payne reunites with his ‘Sideways’ star Paul Giamatti for this wistful 1970-set character study
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Reviews‘Pain Hustlers’: Toronto Review
Emily Blunt shines in this otherwise muted true-life tale of a corrupt American pharmaceutical company
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Reviews‘The Critic’: Toronto Review
Ian McKellen is a gloriously acerbic 1930s theatre critic in a film that proves too genteel for its central character
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Reviews‘Rustin’: Toronto Review
Colman Domingo plays the man behind the March on Washington - who found himself sidelined because he was gay
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Reviews‘In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon’: Toronto Review
Alex Gibney documents the work of Paul Simon in this extensive tour guided by the musician himself
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Reviews‘Together 99’: Toronto Review
Lukas Moodysson presents a tender sequel to his 2000 portrait of a Stockholm commune
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Reviews‘Close To You’: Toronto Review
Trans actor Elliot Page brings his personal experiences to this tale of strained family relationships
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Reviews‘His Three Daughters’: Toronto Review
Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen are Azazel Jacobs’ three sisters gathered for the death of their father in a New York Apartment
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Reviews‘Quiz Lady’: Toronto Review
Awkwafina and Sandra Oh team up for a road trip to a game show for director Jessica Yu
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Reviews‘One Life’: Toronto Review
Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn star in this portrait of Nicholas Winton, who saved hundreds of children from Prague during the war
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Reviews‘Mother, Couch’: Toronto Review
Ewan McGregor is driven to distraction by his defiant mother in this off-kilter adaptation of the Swedish novel
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Reviews‘The Dead Don’t Hurt’: Toronto Review
Viggo Mortensen’s second as director is a Western starring Vicky Krieps which marks an ambitious step up in scope
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Reviews‘Woman Of The Hour’: Toronto Review
‘A tremendous directorial debut’ from Anna Kendrick in this true-life serial killer drama which takes unexpected twists and turns
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Reviews‘American Fiction’: Toronto Review
Cord Jefferson’s impressive debut is a portrait of a frustrated Black author played with relish by Jeffrey Wright
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Reviews‘Shoshana’: Toronto Review
Michael Winterbottom carefully recreates Tel Aviv in the 1930s, where much of the tensions that affect Israel today are starting to bubble over
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Reviews‘Reptile’: Toronto Review
Benicio del Toro impresses in an otherwise lacklustre Netflix cop drama
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Reviews‘The Convert’: Toronto Review
Lee Tamahori returns to New Zealand with this 1830s-set story of a man of God, played by Guy Pearce, and two warring tribes
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Reviews‘Les Indesirables’: Toronto Review
A wealthy mayor takes on a Parisian immigrant tenement in Ladj Ly’s highly-charged follow up to ‘Les Miserables’
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Reviews‘Unicorns’: Toronto Review
Sally El Hosaini’s follow-up to ‘The Swimmers’ is set in the world of ‘gaysian’ drag queen cabaret.