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Bellamy (2010)

Jason says: “The opening scene of Claude Chabrol’s final theatrical film gives a hint to why he was often compared to Alfred Hitchcock, though with a French sensibility: His camera threads its way through a graveyard until it finds corpse

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2010)

Jason says: “Stieg Larsson’s ‘Millennium’ novels – all three published posthumously, and given names that begin The Girl Who… in the United States – are kind of a big deal. How can you tell? Well, the three movies with high

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Friends (with Benefits) (2010)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Gorman Bechard
Starring: Alex Brown | Anne Petersen | Jake Alexander | Lynn Mancinelli | Margaret Laney

Jason says: “A funny thing happened while I sat in the theater, watching the BUFF screening of FRIENDS (WITH BENEFITS): I realized that it was, all told, a pretty conventional romantic comedy – which is probably the last thing I

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Down Terrace (2010)

Jason says: “A lot of gangster movies want you to know that they aren’t just about crime, but about family. You can’t miss it, they’re so formal and insistent that it becomes overbearing. DOWN TERRACE, while it has other flaws,

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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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