The Last Shift: Tone-Deaf ‘Comedy’ Plays to Stereotypes, Misses Chance for Insight
Rustic Oracle: An Indigenous story of truthful fiction - tragedy and despair filtered through a child's eyes
Tesla: A biopic with no spark to speak of, and one of the least dynamic performances of Ethan Hawke's career
ReviewJim SlotekNicola Tesla, Michael Almereyda, Tesla biopic, Ethan Hawke, Tears for Fears’ Everybody Wants to Rule The World, Eve Hewson, J.P. Morgan, Donnie Keshawarz, David Bowie, The Prestige, Thomas Edison, Kyle MacLachlan, Jim Gaffigan, George Westinghouse, Marconi, Sarah Bernhardt, Rebecca Dayan, Deliberate anachronisms
Jay Sebring... Cutting to the Truth: A tribute to a forgotten "name" Manson victim, and an indictment of media frenzy
ReviewJim SlotekCharles Manson, Manson family, 10050 Cielo Drive, Sharon Tate, Anthony DiMaria, Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth, Hollywood men’s hair stylist Sebring, Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, Roman Polanski, Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, Vic Damone, Quincy Jones, Vincent Bugliosi, Dennis Hopper
That’s A Wrap! The Best, Worst, and Weirdest at TIFF 2020
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Views, Preview, ReviewJim SlotekNomadland, Chloe Zhao, Shiva, TIFF 2020, Limbo, One Night in Miami…, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Spike Lee, I Am Greta, Shadow In The Cloud, Quo Vadis, Concrete Cowboy, 76 Days, The Way I See It, Beans, Tracy Deer
The Way I See It: Obama's Presidential photographer focuses on Trump through an angry lens
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekPresidential photographer, Pete Souza, Documentary The Way I See it, Warnings about Donald Trump, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents, Obama: An Intimate Portrait, Ronald Reagan, Sandy Hook shootings, 2020 Presidential election, Toronto International Film Festival
Blackbird: A great cast, and yeah, it's a tearjerker - you got a problem with that?
ReviewJim SlotekBlackbird, American remakes of foreign films, Sam Neill, Susan Sarandon, Assisted suicide, Kate Winslet, Rainn Wilso, Anson Boon, Mia Wasikowska, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Lindsay Duncan, Roger Michell, Tear-jerkers
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Thursday to Saturday, September 17 to 19
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Special Events, TIFF Docs, Discovery, TIFF New Wave, Shiva Baby, Underplayed, Enemies of the State, Gala Presentations, Good Joe Bell, Mark Wahlberg, Gary Sinise, Connie Britton, Gay rights, Toronto filmmaker, The Truffle Hunters, Primetime, A Suitable Boy, Naomi Kawase, True Mothers, Special Presentations, Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg
TIFF Tribute Awards Recap: Kinda Cool, Kinda Weird (But With Peeks into Star’s Homes!)
By Linda Barnard
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Review, ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2020, TIFF Tribute Awards, Nomadland, Beans, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, Tracy Deer, One Night in Miami…, Bruised, Terence Blanchard
Antebellum: Racist past meets micro-aggressive racist present in carelessly offensive time-hopping tale
ReviewJim SlotekAntebellum, Time hopping allegory about racism, Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz, Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Hell You Talmabout, American Utopia, David Byrne, Spike Lee, Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally., The killing of Heather Heyer, Gabourey Sidibe, Jena Malone, William Faulkner
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Wednesday, September 16
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Limbo, DIscovery, Ben Sharrock, Pieces of a Woman, Gala Presentations, Kornél Mundruczó, Shia LaBeouf, Molly Parker, Vanessa Kirby, Wavelengths, Wildfire, Fauna, The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, TIFF Docs, Nicolás Pereda, Cathy Brady, Nora-Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Special Events, I Am Greta, Greta Thunberg, Nathan Grossman
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Tuesday, September 15
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Contemporary World Cinema, Michel Franco, New Order, Mexico, Corruption, Venice Silver Lion Award, Trickster, TIFF New Wave, Michelle Latimer, CBC, Television, Bandar Band, Manijeh Hekmat, MLK/FBI, TIFF Docs, Masters, The Best Is Yet To Come, Notturno, Wang Jing, journalism
Never Be Done: The Richard Glen Lett Story - Not a "sad clown" story, but a hard, redemptive look at a hard man to like
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Monday, September 14
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Review, PreviewTIFF 2020, 76 Days, TIFF Docs, COVID-19, The Father, Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Imogen Poots, Quo Vadis, Aida?, Contemporary World Cinema, Jasmila Žbanić, Jasna Đuričić, 180 Degree Rule, Discovery, Farnoosh Samadi, Ephraim Asili, The Inheritance, Wavelengths, Violation, Dusty Mancinelli, Midnight Madness, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Ammonite, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gala Presentations, Francis Lee
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Sunday, September 13
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Preview, ReviewTIFF 2020, TIFF Discovery, TIFF New Wave, Special Presentations, Special Events, Falling, Beans, Wolfwalkers, Summer of '85, Viggo Mortensen, Laura Linney, David Cronenberg, Tracey Deer, TIFF Emerging Talent, fact based drama, Canadian, François Ozon, Felix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Animation, Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Saturday, September 12
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Review, PreviewTIFF 2020, Contemporary World Cinema, Japan, Drama, Miwa Nishikawa, Lift Like A Girl, TIFF Docs, TIFF New Wave, Akilla’s Escape, Special Events, Penguin Bloom, The Inconvenient Indian, Michelle Latimer, Naomi Watts, Planet Africa 25, Nomadland, Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, Preparations To be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Friday, September 11
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Preview, ReviewTIFF 2020, The DIsciple, Special Presentations, The Way I See It, Special Events, One Night in Miami…, Regina King, Gaza mon amour, Discovery, Tarzan Nassar, Arab Nassar
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Thursday September 10
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF virtual cinema, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Spike Lee, No Ordinary Man, Billy Tipton, Trans issues, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, The Way I See It, Pete Souza, Ronald Reagan, Official presidential photographer
I Am Woman: Helen Reddy Biopic Captures the Big Picture, Misses the Crucial Minutiae
Mulan: No cartoon dragons, no musical numbers, just an ancient, action-packed Chinese spectacle
ReviewJim SlotekDisney live-action remakes, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Niki Caro, Rosalind Chao, Eddie Murphy, Kar-Wai Wong, Whale Rider, Ang Lee, Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Jason Scott Lee, Disney+
