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Day: March 11, 2016

Review: Glassland

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) John (Jack Reynor) is a young man struggling to make money as a taxi driver in Ireland, forced to take care of his severely alcoholic mother (Toni Collette), who is slowly killing herself in drunken stupors, finding it too painful to face her broken life. But the pressure… Read More Review: Glassland

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Review: River

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A Canadian-funded escape thriller, River follows John Lake (Rossif Sutherland), a volunteer doctor in Laos who is dealing with patients of trauma and emergency surgeries, as evidenced in the almost relentlessly graphic opening scenes. But when he intervenes in a violent rape after a night at the bar, accidentally… Read More Review: River

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