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This film flits somewhere between the absurd and the ridiculous, while somehow remaining predictable. This movie, directed by Michael Showalter, is flawed (and often embarrassingly so) but has something going for it: Anne Hathaway is fully committed to the part.
It doesn’t take a lot of imagination for most Americans to understand the concept and realities of the world in which Digger lives. A ridiculously wealthy man living on his own save a nearly-deceased cat he holds incredibly dear and a few employees that flow in and out of his rooms like water at his bidding. On the day we are introduced to him, he finds out the drilling he so desperately had been pining after in Alaska has caused a crack in the ice shelf creating a brand new and incredibly dangerous speeding projectile of an iceberg headed for Norway. With no warning, things shift and you’re seeing the story in a whole new light. Tension galore throughout the two hour run time and you’re not sure if you hate it or love it, but it got your attention.
There are so many fantastic French coming-of-age films that to direct one, especially one as self-consciously grand as Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva necessitates contending with that most hallowed of national traditions. In some ways, La Gradiva is an epic-sized version of countryside group portraits like Graduate First or Wild Reeds, following a class of French high school seniors on a field trip to Pompeii just before they receive their college admissions results. Amidst the ruins of the ancient city, the film is about a group of children on the cusp of adulthood who in the process of connecting with ancient tragedy, find themselves confronted with their own mortality.
This year, documentarian Lance Oppenheim makes the leap to docudrama thriller to bring audiences inside the grimy operation behind To Catch a Predator.
John Wilson’s first feature-length documentary could have been titled How To Make A Movie With John Wilson.
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Set during the great depression, dry earth covering everything, near starvation plaguing more people than it isn’t, and no end it sight leaves Samuel Murphy (Ethan Hawke) and his young whip smart and headstrong daughter Penny (Avy Berry) in dire straights. In a manner of seconds their lives take a nose dive as he throws punches to protect her from predators, but the assault lands him in prison. Promising to be back for her, he takes on any opportunity to lessen his sentence. Time is of the essence, so when the warden of his prison-work camp offers a way to freedom within a week he jumps at it knowing full well it could be life threatening.
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
