#TIFF25: “ROOFMAN” REVIEW
By Nicholas Porteous
In Derek Cianfrance's Roofman, the nicest robber you've ever met (Channing Tatum), makes a temporary home inside a Toys R Us, and manages to fall for one of the employees (Kirsten Dunst). How will he juggle a growing relationship with a single mom and avoid getting caught in her place of work? If you find the premise unbelievable, you're wrong. It's a true story.
Roofman is a joyfully unexpected genre hybrid. It's a romcom about two divorcees starting over, it's a ...
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#TIFF25: “THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Willem Dafoe plays a mysterious man who rents Corey Hawkins’ basement in this unsettling adaptation of Walter Mosley’s novel of the same name.
Charles Blakey’s (Hawkins) life is falling apart since his mother passed away. He fills himself up with booze, can’t get a job and worst of all: he can’t afford to keep the family home. This sends him on a quest to search through family heirlooms to see if anything is worth money. He ...
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#TIFF25: “THE LOST BUS” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Director Paul Greengrass brings the events that transpired during the California Camp Fire to the big screen. Greengrass and Co-Writer Brad Ingelsby adapt Lizzie Johnson’s non-fiction book, Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire. Here, they focus on one story during that disaster. A busload of school children, their teacher Amy (America Ferrera), and the bus ...
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#TIFF25: DAY THREE SIGHTINGS – CHANNING TATUM, KIRSTEN DUNST, CHRIS EVANS, ANYA TAYLOR-JOY, RIZ AHMED, COOPER HOFFMAN AND MORE
sorry! we thought we posted this but it remained in drafts! these days have been rather long and exhausting!
Some sightings from day three!
•victor garber at tiff for you had to be there•tom blyth and david jonsson at tiff for wasteman•riz ahmed at tiff for hamlet•kirsten dunst, channing tatum, and dwrek cianfrance at tiff for roofman•diego boneta at tiff for killing castro•andrew barth feldman, cooper hoffman, maude apatow and nico parker at tiff for poetic license•imogen ...
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#TIFF25: DAY TWO SIGHTINGS – ETHAN HAWKE, RENATE REINSVE, ELLE FANNING, SYDNEY SWEENEY, KATY O’BRIAN, SHAILENE WOODLEY, EMILIA JONES, MAUDE APATOW, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY, JAMIE LEE CURTIS + MORE
Our tiff50 adventures continue with a very successful Day Two that included sightings with:
•ethan hawke for blue moon and the lowdown•corey hawkins and anna diop at tiff for the man in my basement•stellan slarsgård, renate reinsve, and elle fanning at tiff for sentimental value•shailene woodley and ben fodter at tiff for motor city•samara weaving and kyle gallner at tiff for carolina caroline•nick robinson and emilia jones at tiff for charlie harper•emilia jones at tiff for ...
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#TIFF25: “CHRISTY” REVIEW
By David Baldwin
Christy Salters (Sydney Sweeney) went from being a college basketball player in the late 1980s to being one of the pioneers of women’s boxing, going by the nickname “The Coal Miner’s Daughter”. Behind closed doors however, Christy was enduring abuse and degradation at the hands of her 25-years-older husband and boxing coach Jim Martin (Ben Foster).
For much of its running time, CHRISTY is your standard sports Biopic. It is based on a true story, and it hits all ...
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#TIFF25: “IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Writer-Director Mary Bronstein brings us into a mother’s escalating anxieties in this claustrophobic pressure-cooker.
Linda (Rose Byrne) can’t catch a break. Her husband is away on a work trip, leaving her to care for their sick daughter while still working daily as a mental health counsellor. It’s clear from the jump that Linda is struggling with debilitating mental health issues herself. And if the pressures of her daily life weren’t ...
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#TIFF25: “SOUND OF FALLING” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize–winner follows the lives of four women from different generations who all lived on the same farm in northern Germany. This particular farm sits on a tumultuous region, one that saw both world wars and defined East and West Germany. The four generations of women are: Alma (Hanna Heckt) in the early 20th century, Erika (Lea Drinda) in the 1940s, Angelika (Lena Urzendowsky) in the 1980s, ...
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#TIFF25: “CHARLIE HARPER” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
First-time filmmakers Mac Eldridge and Tom Dean have crafted a romance that is grounded and raw. It showcases two magnetic performances from indie favourites Emilia Jones and Nick Robinson.
We follow the complicated relationship between Charlie (Robinson) and Harper (Jones) over the course of five years. The two met in high school but then lost touch before rekindling their flame in that tender time after graduating ...
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#TIFF25: “BLOOD LINES” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Filmmaker Gail Maurice’s second feature follows Beatrice (Dana Solomon), a storyteller and store clerk, who is completely taken by a new woman who arrives in her Métis community looking to find her biological family. She decides to help this newcomer, Chani (Derica Lafrance), to spend more time with her. While Chani is searching for her family, Beatrice’s estranged mother Léonore (played by the ...
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