Articles By Sarah Melton
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!['Long Shot' Doesn't Risk Political Heavy-Lifting in Its Rom-Com Construction Directed by Jonathan Levine]()
Reviews'Long Shot' Doesn't Risk Political Heavy-Lifting in Its Rom-Com Construction Directed by Jonathan Levine Published May 06, 2019Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) is a high-powered, sophisticated U.S. Secretary of State with her eye on the Presidency. Fred Flarsky (Set...
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![Hot Docs Review: 'Pipe Dreams' Is a Gripping Look at an International Music Competition Directed by Stacey Tenenbaum]()
ReviewsHot Docs Review: 'Pipe Dreams' Is a Gripping Look at an International Music Competition Directed by Stacey Tenenbaum Published Apr 24, 2019Stacey Tenenbaum's surprisingly high-stakes documentary Pipe Dreams follows five musicians in the months leading up to the Canadian Internat...
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!['The Hummingbird Project' Makes Financial Crimes Watchable Directed by Kim Nguyen]()
Reviews'The Hummingbird Project' Makes Financial Crimes Watchable Directed by Kim Nguyen Published Mar 19, 2019When Vinny (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton Zaleski (Alexander Skarsgård) set out to build an underground cable from Kansas straight to the New Y...
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!['Cold Pursuit' Offers Revenge Served Cold Directed By Hans Petter Moland]()
Reviews'Cold Pursuit' Offers Revenge Served Cold Directed By Hans Petter Moland Published Feb 08, 2019Amidst scandal around racist revenge fantasy comments, Liam Neeson's latest revenge action/thriller is bound for a fittingly icy reception....
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!['Ben Is Back' Is a Fraught Exploration of Addiction During Holidays Directed by Peter Hedges]()
Reviews'Ben Is Back' Is a Fraught Exploration of Addiction During Holidays Directed by Peter Hedges Published Dec 13, 2018When Holly (Julia Roberts) pulls up to her house, a nervous young man is standing in the snowy front yard. She leaps out of the car and runs...
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![CUFF Docs Review: 'The Cleaners' Gets Its Hands Dirty with Sketchy Social Media Posts]()
ReviewsCUFF Docs Review: 'The Cleaners' Gets Its Hands Dirty with Sketchy Social Media Posts Published Dec 02, 2018In the opening scene of Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck's documentary The Cleaners, a social media "content moderator" in the Philippines s...
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!['The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' Too Easily Embraces Old Western Tropes Directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen]()
Reviews'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' Too Easily Embraces Old Western Tropes Directed by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen Published Nov 14, 2018The Coen brothers' latest revisits the wild west in a collection of six independent shorts. Visualized as flipping through chapters in an an...
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![Planet In Focus Review: 'For the Birds' Glosses over Hoarding Issues Directed By Richard Miron]()
ReviewsPlanet In Focus Review: 'For the Birds' Glosses over Hoarding Issues Directed By Richard Miron Published Oct 25, 2018For the Birds begins with home footage of Kathy Murphy and her husband Gary with a single motherless baby duck they found in their yard, and...
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![Planet In Focus Review: 'When Lambs Become Lions' Documents Complex Ivory Trade Directed by Jon Kasbe]()
ReviewsPlanet In Focus Review: 'When Lambs Become Lions' Documents Complex Ivory Trade Directed by Jon Kasbe Published Oct 25, 2018Jon Kasbe's first feature documentary, When Lambs Become Lions, is a stunning, complicated portrait of a Kenyan community entangled in the i...
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!['Sharkwater Extinction' Continues Rob Stewart's Legacy]()
Features'Sharkwater Extinction' Continues Rob Stewart's Legacy Published Oct 22, 2018When filmmaker Rob Stewart died in a tragic diving incident in 2017 while filming a sequel to Sharkwater, his friends and family knew they n...
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![Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart Just Barely Pass 'Night School' Directed by Malcolm D. Lee]()
ReviewsTiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart Just Barely Pass 'Night School' Directed by Malcolm D. Lee Published Sep 28, 2018When Teddy Walker (Kevin Hart) accidentally blows up the successful barbecue shop he was set to take over, he finds himself in a classroom o...
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!['The Wife' Boils With the Power of Glenn Close Directed by Björn Runge]()
Reviews'The Wife' Boils With the Power of Glenn Close Directed by Björn Runge Published Sep 20, 2018When celebrated writer Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) wins the Nobel Prize, The Wife centres the woman sitting next to the spotlight. Easily...
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![TIFF Review: 'That Time of Year' Explores Drama at Danish Christmas Directed by Paprika Steen]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'That Time of Year' Explores Drama at Danish Christmas Directed by Paprika Steen Published Sep 14, 2018A Danish christmas movie that is anything but jolly, That Time of Year does an impeccable job of capturing simmering family tensions during...
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![TIFF Review: 'The Fall of the American Empire' Rants About Capitalism, But Not Profoundly Directed by Denys Arcand]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'The Fall of the American Empire' Rants About Capitalism, But Not Profoundly Directed by Denys Arcand Published Sep 12, 2018Quebec filmmaker Denys Arcand's latest, The Fall of the American Empire, is a watchable but unprofound money heist ruminating on capitalism...
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![TIFF Review: 'The Fireflies Are Gone' Is a Nuanced Coming-of-Age Tale In Small-Town Quebec Directed by Sébastien Pilote]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'The Fireflies Are Gone' Is a Nuanced Coming-of-Age Tale In Small-Town Quebec Directed by Sébastien Pilote Published Sep 11, 2018When Léo (Karelle Tremblay), a quirky outsider with killer style and all the teenage angst in the world, skips out on dinner with her family...
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![TIFF Review: 'Un Ange' Gets Seduced by Its Own Cinematography Directed by Koen Mortier]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'Un Ange' Gets Seduced by Its Own Cinematography Directed by Koen Mortier Published Sep 10, 2018The first scene of Angel (Un Ange) is Fae (Fatou N'Diaye), a Senegalese sex worker in the motel room from which she works. The camera circle...
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![TIFF Review: 'Giant Little Ones' Packs Huge Issues Into a Little Story Directed by Keith Behrman]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'Giant Little Ones' Packs Huge Issues Into a Little Story Directed by Keith Behrman Published Sep 09, 2018When Franky (Josh Wiggins) hooks up with his best friend at his 17th birthday party, new pressures are introduced into his life. Beyond chan...
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![TIFF Review: 'The Grizzlies' Tells A Tale Too Familiar Directed by Miranda de Pencier]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'The Grizzlies' Tells A Tale Too Familiar Directed by Miranda de Pencier Published Sep 08, 2018While Canada is lacking in films that centre Indigenous communities, The Grizzlies is a story you've seen before. Russ, a young white man, g...
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![TIFF Review: 'Cold War' Is Pawel Pawlikowski's Deeply Personal 'Ida' Followup Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'Cold War' Is Pawel Pawlikowski's Deeply Personal 'Ida' Followup Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski Published Sep 08, 2018Pawel Pawlikowski's first film after Ida won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Cold War is a visually stunning love story loosely ba...
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![TIFF Review: 'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch' Is a Kaleidoscopic Look at Dystopian Self-Destruction Directed by Jennifer Baichwal]()
ReviewsTIFF Review: 'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch' Is a Kaleidoscopic Look at Dystopian Self-Destruction Directed by Jennifer Baichwal Published Sep 06, 2018Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, a look at humankind's intense altering of the Earth, is Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier's third col...
