TIFF

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  Machine Gun Preacher

  Marc Forster

  PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2011

  Because of how obscenely heavy-handed and manipulative this woefully executed "true" story of reformed drug dealer and religious nut Sam Ch...

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  I'm Yours

  Leonard Farlinger

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2011

  It seems to be a rite of passage for many Canuck filmmakers to tackle the Canadian road movie genre, exploring themes of alienation and iso...

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  The Hunter

  Daniel Nettheim

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2011

  Television veteran Daniel Nettheim takes a stab at adapting Australian countryman Julia Leigh's novel of the same name, but fumbles the cha...

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  Melancholia

  Lars von Trier

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2011

  The thing I like most about Lars von Trier's films is his unique ability to challenge dominant morality, essentially telling large groups o...

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  Take Shelter

  Jeff Nichols

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2011

  Since most films about mental illness depict their subject with awry spectacle, detailing difference as some sort of sideshow oddity to be...

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  Drive

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2011

  Drive feels like a '70s loner film filtered through '80s action movie sensibilities, but set in the present day. If Michael Mann were to re...

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  Sleeping Beauty

  Julia Leigh

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2011

  Seemingly, Sleeping Beauty is a snarky female response to the laughably sexist and superficial male identity anxiety parable House of the S...

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  Restless

  Gus Van Sant

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2011

  Conscious of Annabel's (Mia Wasikowska) impending cancer-related death, she and her funeral-hopping, ghost-talking, orphan boyfriend, Enoch...