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Chloe (2010)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Julianne Moore | Liam Neeson | Max Thieriot | Nina Dobrey

Bruce says: “CHLOE is a reworking of Anne Fontaine’s 2003 French film NATHALIE which starred Fanny Ardant, Gérard Depardieu and Emanuelle Béart. And CHLOE is one of the rare films that is more inspired than its antecedent. The plot is

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Buried (2010)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Rodrigo Cortés
Starring: José Luis García Pérez | Robert Paterson | Ryan Reynolds | Samantha Mathis | Stephen Tobolowsky

Jason says: “BURIED is the sort of movie where every step in the process of getting made is a combination between those involved challenging themselves and crafting a movie that can be shot with a tiny budget, cast, and crew.

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Bran Nue Dae (2010)

Michael says: “Without a doubt, BRAN NUE DAE, Rachel Perkins’ adaptation of a hugely successful Australian stage musical, is the most fun I’ve had in a theatre this year at TIFF! Willie is doing his mother’s bidding and studying to

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Bodyguards and Assassins (2010)

Jason says: “Before BODYGUARDS AND ASSASSINS, the festival presented Development Hell, a documentary not about the making of this film, but of the collapse of multiple attempts to shoot it under multiple titles over decades. Unlike many cursed productions, this

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World’s Greatest Dad (2009)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Bobcat Goldthwait
Starring: Alexie Gilmore | Daryl Sabara | Jermaine Williams | Michael Thomas Moore | Robin Williams

Jason says: “WORLD’S GREATEST DAD is deliciously black comedy, the sort that revels not just in how horrible the characters can be, but also regularly raises that bar by going for absurdity as well. That’s not terribly uncommon; lots of

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Women in Trouble (2009)

Jason says: “To a certain extent, I don’t care who the audience for WOMEN IN TROUBLE is – it made me laugh out loud and then did a little more than amuse me, and that makes it good in my

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With a Little Help From Myself (2009)

Bruce says: “Sonia (Félicité Wouassi) is having many difficulties – with her gambling husband George (Mamadou Dioumé), her pregnant daughter Suze (Elisabeth Oppong), her seemingly suicidal pre-adolescent son Leo (Charles-Étienne N’Diaye) and her son Victor (Ralph Amoussou) who is running

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Face (2009)

Michael says: “Drawing parallels between the chaos of making a film and that same unpredictability in life, Tsai Ming-liang has made his most far out and in many ways exciting movie to date. Kang, who we have come to know

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Unmistaken Child (2009)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Nati Baratz

Jason says: “UNMISTAKEN CHILD is an example of my favorite sort of documentary, the fly-on-the-wall film that looks and feels like a narrative feature. It tells its story by marshaling extraordinary access and patience, rather than cutting cutting away to

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A Town Called Panic (2009)

Jason says: “A TOWN CALLED PANIC hit me just right tonight; it might not have on another day. It is, you see, an extraordinarily silly animated film, and sometimes one just doesn’t feel like silliness. Of course, those times may

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