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Review of Blue Ruin (2014)

By John Semley (121) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 05 Jan 2015

As the corpses pile up, Blue Ruin plays like an ever-expanding Mexican Standoff, death met with death in a sprawling network of violence that…

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Review of Frank (2014)

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

Even disguised, Fassbender is amazing, often revealing Frank's emotional extremes through body language alone. It's really something…

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Review of Big Hero 6 (2014)

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

Directors Don Hall and Chris Williams find new angles on the required action beats, playing up the human relationships and having fun with…

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Review of Locke (2014)

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

This is a remarkable cinematic experiment…

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Review of Fury (2014)

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

Fury feels like a swaggering corrective to the old-fashioned pleasures of George Clooney's recent The Monuments Men…

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Review of Beyond the Lights (2014)

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

The film reminds us why straight-up romances are so few and far between these days: the genre depends on contrivance more than almost any other…

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Review of Citizenfour (2014)

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

Much of the film consists of footage of Snowden explaining the range and depth of American data-mining to an increasingly horrified Greenwald…

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Review of Oculus (2014)

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

Oculus doesn't do anything especially new - in fact, its vibe is strangely similar to that of last year's Mama - but it's cleverly written,…

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Review of Oculus (2013)

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

Oculus doesn't do anything especially new - in fact, its vibe is strangely similar to that of last year's Mama - but it's cleverly written,…

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Review of Chef (2014)

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

It's 20 minutes too long and a hair too manipulative, but Favreau is so intent on delivering a pleasurable experience that it almost seems…

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Review of Wild (2014)

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

[Witherspoon is] entirely credible as the worn-down Strayed, and the performance grows even more impressive as Vallée lets us learn where…

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Review of Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

By John Semley (121) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jan 2015

Even if Jodorowsky's movie never got made, his wide-eyed belief in the medium is refreshing in an age when cinema's possibilities feel frustratingly…

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Review of National Gallery (2014)

By Susan G. Cole (137) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jan 2015

Art lovers will be chuffed that Frederick Wiseman's put his fly-on-the wall camera inside London's National Gallery…

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Review of Nightcrawler (2014)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jan 2015

Gilroy's script is less interested in social commentary than in crafting a slippery character study, and Gyllenhaal is perfectly suited to that…

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Review of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jan 2015

It has a charismatic hero, inspired action choreography and Robert Redford as a living signifier of the days when Hollywood thrillers tried…

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Review of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jan 2015

Motion-capture technology just gets better and better -- and so do the Planet Of The Apes reboots…

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Review of Whiplash (2014)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jan 2015

Chazelle's plot twists grow increasingly ridiculous, prizing intensity over credibility, and the final act has the feel of a fever dream…

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Review of Gone Girl (2014)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jan 2015

It's a testament to David Fincher's skill as a filmmaker that he makes something as complex as Gone Girl feel so effortless…

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Review of The Lego Movie (2014)

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

Sweet, funny, preposterously complex and uniquely ridiculous, The Lego Movie feels like a quantum step up for both CG animation and movies…

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Review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 02 Jan 2015

Really, though, this is an excuse to let the all-star casts of the original trilogy and 2011's swinging 60s prequel share the same screen space…

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