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Review of The Dictator (2012)

By Melinda Sue Gordon (1) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 14 May 2012

Cohen and Charles deserve kudos for departing from their usual formula of setting Cohen's crazed characters loose in the real world…

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Review of China Heavyweight (2012)

By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 10 May 2012

It stands as a fascinating look at a changing China and the courage it takes for those living there to punch above their weight…

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Review of Sound of My Voice (2011)

By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 09 May 2012

Sound of My Voice grounds its science fiction in scarily effective what ifs that don't require a light year's stretch of the imagination…

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Review of Dark Shadows (2012)

By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 09 May 2012

Stumbles blindly along with Barnabas for most of its overlong 113 minutes, leaving viewers in the dark as to its intentions…

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Review of A Bottle in the Gaza Sea (2011)

By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 09 May 2012

Director Thierry Binisti has chosen two excellent leads in Shalaby and Bonitzer, both of whom exude intensity and charisma…

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Review of Detachment (2011)

By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 02 May 2012

Detachment gets an A for enthusiasm but a C for execution…

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Review of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)

By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 02 May 2012

A gently amusing tale of seven seniors who run away from dreary old England for a new life as retirement Raj in India…

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Review of Wagner's Dream (2012)

By John Terauds (3) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 02 May 2012

A two-hour documentary that has as many hair-raising, stomach-churning moments as a ride on Wonderland's new Leviathan…

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Review of Headhunters (2011)

By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 02 May 2012

That's some good acting by Hennie, but it's also good writing by co-scribes Lars Gudmestad and Ulf Ryberg…

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Review of The Five-Year Engagement (2012)

By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 25 Apr 2012

Engagement gets the most important thing right, which is the lead casting: Segel and Blunt are completely convincing as Tom and Violet, star-crossed…

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Review of Detention (2012)

By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 25 Apr 2012

Neither good enough to impress as a meta mashup of horror and comedy, nor bad enough to hoot and throw popcorn at, it slides into a gray area…

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Review of Darling Companion (2012)

By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 25 Apr 2012

It's the story that strains credulity, a navel gazer about whether a search for a lost dog can bring an uninvolved family back together as…

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Review of The Raven (2012)

By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 25 Apr 2012

If Edgar Allen Poe were alive today, working as a Hollywood screenwriter (God forbid), I suspect he'd be penning not the abysmal script for…

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Review of The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)

By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 25 Apr 2012

Purists can rest easy…

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Review of The Lady (2011)

By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 25 Apr 2012

The Lady is little more than a history lesson - although a beautifully presented one - wrapped in the pink gloss of a G-rated potboiler evidenced…

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Review of Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope (2011)

By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 18 Apr 2012

It's a lot to squeeze into 86 minutes, and Spurlock pulls it all together with infectious brio, making us realize that geeks are people, too,…

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Review of I'm Yours (2012)

By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 18 Apr 2012

Even the sex is dull in I'm Yours, Toronto writer-director Leonard Farlinger's Canuck road movie that takes an ill-matched pair from New York…

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Review of Sound It Out (2011)

By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 18 Apr 2012

Finlay takes a gentle approach with her subjects, letting their passion - and hers - guide the doc, which was crowd-source funded by more than…

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Review of West Wind: The Vision Of Tom Thomson (2012)

By Murray Whyte (6) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 18 Apr 2012

The West Wind is the same old reverential Thomson myth we've heard hundreds of times: About Thomson's self-taught intuitive genius, his love…

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Review of I'm Yours (2012)

By Linda Barnard (586) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 18 Apr 2012

Even the sex is dull in I'm Yours, Toronto writer-director Leonard Farlinger's Canuck road movie that takes an ill-matched pair from New York…

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