TIFF

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  The Art of the Steal

  Jonathan Sobol

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  How can a movie involving the smuggling of biblical art in a large, pink, cubed vagina sculpture be so underwhelming? A stylish heist flick...

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  Le Démantèlement

  Sébastien Pilote

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  Quietly and unassumingly, Le Démantèlement (Sébastien Pilote's modernist ersatz-take on King Lear) unfolds as a contemplative character pie...

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  Sarah Prefers to Run

  Chloé Robichaud

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  With extreme formality, dividing up each shot of every aerobic sequence with equal runtime, vacillating between medium close-ups and close-...

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  The Past

  Asghar Farhadi

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  As was the case with his Oscar-winning domestic drama, A Separation, Asghar Farhadi's The Past preoccupies itself with divorce and familial...

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  Gabrielle

  Louise Archambault

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  Louise Archambault's Gabrielle is a respectful, honest and moving story about love, music and personal independence. It also happens to be...

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  Concrete Night

  Pirjo Honkaselo

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  Pirjo Honkaselo's first narrative film in 15 years, Concrete Night opens, quite exquisitely, with a dream. Fourteen-year-old Simo (Johannes...

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  At Berkeley

  Frederick Wiseman

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  Having already established an effective template for deconstructing and analyzing the complexities that comprise a functioning institution,...

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  Metallica: Through the Never 3D

  Nimród Antal

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2013

  Unlike the abundance of overly sanitized, youth-oriented concert films from the likes of Katy Perry and One Direction, cashing in on the di...