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TIFF13: Burt's Buzz (2013)

TIFF13: Burt's Buzz (2013)

A shallow portrait of a strange man.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 15, 2013Burt Shavitz, Burt's Bee, Burt's Buzz, Canadian film, Clorox, documentary, Jody Shapiro, TIFF, TIFF13, Toronto International Film Festival Comment

TIFF13: Blind Detective (2013)

TIFF13: Blind Detective (2013)

A hilarious riff on the buddy cop genre from Johnnie To.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 14, 2013action, Andy Lau, Blind Detective, buddy cop, comedy, Hong Kong, Johnnie To, Sammi Cheng, TIFF, TIFF13, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

TIFF13: Moebius (2013)

TIFF13: Moebius (2013)

A sick, twisted black comedy from Kim Ki-duk.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 14, 2013black comedy, castration, Cho Jae-hyun, drama, incest, Kim Ki-duk, Korean, Lee Eun-woo, midnight movie, Moebius, Seo Young-ju, TIFF, TIFF13, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

TIFF13: The Wind Rises (2013)

TIFF13: The Wind Rises (2013)

Three impressions of a master's last work.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnton BergstromSeptember 12, 2013Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, Jiro Horikoshi, Studio Ghibli, The Wind Rises, TIFF, TIFF13, Toronto International Film Festival, Zero FighterComment

TIFF13: Kill Your Darlings (2013)

TIFF13: Kill Your Darlings (2013)

A conflicted, inept look at the early years of Allen Ginsberg.

TIFF13: The Unknown Known (2013)

TIFF13: The Unknown Known (2013)

A probing and thoughtful documentary.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnders BergstromSeptember 11, 2013documentary, Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris, political, TIFF13, warComment

TIFF13: Under the Skin (2013)

TIFF13: Under the Skin (2013)

This atmospheric mood piece sticks with you.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnders BergstromSeptember 11, 2013atmospheric, experimental, Jonathan Glazer, Scarlett Johansson, TIFF13, Under the SkinComment

TIFF13: Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

TIFF13: Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

A hilarious and bizarre documentary about a great failed film.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 11, 2013Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chris Foss, Dan O'Bannon, documentary, Dune, Frank Herbert, Frank Pavich, H-R- Giger, Hollywood, Michel Seydoux, science fictionComment

TIFF13: Joe (2013)

TIFF13: Joe (2013)

A grim and gritty regional drama featuring a great Nicolas Cage.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 11, 2013David Gordon Green, drama, gritty, Joe, Mud, Nic Cage, Nicolas Cage, regionalism, TIFF, TIFF13, Toronto International Film Festival, Tye SheridanComment

TIFF13: Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

TIFF13: Half of a Yellow Sun (2013)

An engaging historical drama from recent Nigerian history.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnders BergstromSeptember 10, 2013Anika Noni Rose, Biyi Bandele, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, drama, Half of a Yellow Sun, John Boyega, Thandie Newton Comments

TIFF 13: The Armstrong Lie (2013)

TIFF 13: The Armstrong Lie (2013)

A fascinating, incisive anatomy of a lie.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnton BergstromSeptember 10, 2013Alex Gibney, cycling, documentary, doping, Lance Armstrong, sports, The Armstrong LieComment

TIFF13: Gravity (2013)

TIFF13: Gravity (2013)

A spectacular, gripping filmgoing experience.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 10, 20133D, Alfonso Cuaron, George Clooney, Gravity, Sandra Bullock, space, thriller, TIFF, TIFF13, Toronto International Film FestivalComment

TIFF13: Hateship Loveship (2013) and Labor Day (2013)

TIFF13: Hateship Loveship (2013) and Labor Day (2013)

One's understated and carefully awkward, the other's too sweet.

TIFF13: The F Word (2013)

TIFF13: The F Word (2013)

A charming, funny, romantic rom-com. How rare!

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 9, 2013Adam Driver, Canadian film, comedy, Daniel Radcliffe, Elan Mastai, Michael Dowse, romantic comedy, The F Word, TIFF, TIFF13, Toronto, Toronto International Film Festival, Zoe KazanComment

TIFF13: Can a Song Save Your Life? (2013)

TIFF13: Can a Song Save Your Life? (2013)

A joyous and charming experience.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnders BergstromSeptember 9, 2013Can a Song Save Your LIfe?, John Carney, Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, music, musicalComment

TIFF13: Like Father, Like Son (2013)

TIFF13: Like Father, Like Son (2013)

A gently humourous yet piercing look at parent child relations.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnders BergstromSeptember 8, 2013children, drama, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, Like Father Like Son, parent, TIFF13Comment

TIFF13: Prisoners (2013)

TIFF13: Prisoners (2013)

A tense, deeply-felt thriller in the vein of The Silence of the Lambs.

TIFF13: The Fifth Estate (2013)

TIFF13: The Fifth Estate (2013)

An inconsistent and ungainly misfire of a film.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnders BergstromSeptember 8, 2013Benedict Cumberbatch, Bill Condon, Daniel Brühl, drama, Julian Assange, political, The Fifth Estate, TIFF13, WikileaksComment

TIFF13: Southcliffe (2013)

TIFF13: Southcliffe (2013)

A weighty mini-series about grief in the face of tragedy.

Reviews, The Festival CircuitAnders BergstromSeptember 7, 2013drama, mini-series, Red Riding Trilogy, Sean Durkin, Sean Harris, Southcliffe, television, Tony Grisoni, United KingdomComment

TIFF13: The Past (2013)

TIFF13: The Past (2013)

An exquisitely rendered melodrama.

Reviews, The Festival Circuit, Aren's ReviewsAren BergstromSeptember 6, 2013Ali Mosaffa, Asghar Farhadi, Bérénice Bejo, Cannes, divorce, drama, France, Iran, melodrama, Tahar Rahim, The Past, TIFF13, Toronto International Film FestivalComment