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Day: September 13, 2018

#TIFF18 Review: Green Book

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Tony Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) is a working class Italian-American family man who works as a bouncer at a New York night club. Dr. Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali) is a renowned classical pianist of Jamaican descent who is embarking on a tour throughout the Deep South of 1962, a… Read More #TIFF18 Review: Green Book

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#TIFF18 Review: High Life

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Claire Denis does sci-fi in High Life, and the results are as confounding and maybe even weirder than you expect from the French auteur, who is also working in English for the first time. The film opens with Monte (Robert Pattinson) alone on a spaceship, tending to his baby… Read More #TIFF18 Review: High Life

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#TIFF18 Review: What They Had

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) When Bridget (Hilary Swank) returns home to help deal with her mother (Blythe Danner), who is rapidly progressing into Alzheimer’s, she also finds herself having to deal with the drama of her father (Robert Forster) not being ready to have his high school sweetheart leave home, as her… Read More #TIFF18 Review: What They Had

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