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Review of Champs (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Mar 2015

Directing a critical eye at the sociology and predatory business of boxing, the doc is periodically interesting but also unconvincingly broad…

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Review of Unfinished Business (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 06 Mar 2015

Jammed between pratfalls that include a man's face and a penis coming together is a sentimental story about the challenges of being a good,…

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Review of 1971 (2014)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 05 Mar 2015

Johanna Hamilton's 1971 may not be as dynamic or immediate a documentary as executive producer Laura Poitras's Citizenfour, but as a look at…

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Review of The Intruders (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 05 Mar 2015

The Intruders stacks the deck with all the familiar horror signposts, as if straying from clichés were the most frightening thing of all…

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Review of Rufus (2012)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 03 Mar 2015

I don't know what sort of movie Rufus was intended to be when it was shot, but I can't imagine it was anything like what's being dumped into…

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Review of Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine (2014)

By Susan G. Cole (137) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 27 Feb 2015

There's nothing new here in terms of documentary form, and there are too many filler scenes shot from inside cars driving down Wyoming's highways…

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Review of Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 26 Feb 2015

The set-up can seem frustratingly constrictive and redundant, but that's the point…

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Review of No Country for Old Men (2007)

By John Harkness (5) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 22 Feb 2015

Seventy minutes into the film, there's a rude burst of mariachi music as the hero awakes…

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Review of Siddharth (2013)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 18 Feb 2015

Mehta keeps his sociopolitical critique in the background, allowing it to inform but not interfere with his intimate and devastating story…

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Review of In Her Place (2014)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 12 Feb 2015

An expertly plotted drama that packs a paralyzing emotional gut punch…

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Review of Seventh Son (2014)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 07 Feb 2015

Moore vamps and camps it up, seemingly aware that the only way to liven up the dreadful material is by trying to out-wicked the Wicked Witch…

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Review of Seventh Son (2014)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 07 Feb 2015

Moore vamps and camps it up, seemingly aware that the only way to liven up the dreadful material is by trying to out-wicked the Wicked Witch…

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Review of The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 05 Feb 2015

The bulk of Sponge Out of Water stays submerged, hand-drawn and Banderas-free, still delivering the coy wit, surrealism and absurdity that…

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Review of Project Almanac (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 30 Jan 2015

The disorderly and often derivative space-time frolic never reaches the heights of Chronicle or the temporal dislocation fodder it humbly makes…

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Review of The Boy Next Door (2015)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 27 Jan 2015

Why Lopez and Step Up's Guzman didn't join forces for a sexy dance-off instead of a piss-poor Fatal Attraction-style domestic thriller is beyond me…

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Review of Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014)

By Radheyan Simonpillai (471) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 15 Jan 2015

Paradise Lost's main focus is Josh Hutcherson's fictional and bland Canadian surfer boy Nick…

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Review of 12 Years a Slave (2013)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 13 Jan 2015

McQueen directs with a total lack of sentiment, crafting each sequence with a merciless forward momentum that compensates for the episodic…

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Review of Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 09 Jan 2015

I found myself longing for the clarity of Darren Aronofsky's recent Noah, which acknowledged the insane implications of its story by putting…

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Review of John Wick (2014)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 05 Jan 2015

For a movie in which dozens of people are violently shot in the head, John Wick is an awful lot of fun…

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Review of Pride (2014)

By Susan G. Cole (137) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 05 Jan 2015

It gets a bit too warm and fuzzy - bordering on manipulative - at the end, but this is an important story proving that activists with ingenuity…

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