Report From Toronto
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Toronto Film Festival Market: Will Streaming Giants Spend Big Again and 5 Other Things to Watch
Old and new streaming platforms battle for clout and brand identity, many distributors are broke or betting big, and Fox Searchlight braces for life under Disney
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12 Hottest Toronto Movies for Sale, From ‘Wild Rose’ to ‘Vox Lux’ (Photos)
Toronto film market has awards bait, a Steve Bannon doc and lots of Natalie Portman
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Julianne Moore’s ‘Gloria Bell’ Lands at A24 Ahead of Toronto Film Festival
TIFF 2018: Remake also stars John Turturro, Rita Wilson and Michael Cera
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‘Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood’ Review: Sex Abounded in Hollywood’s Golden Age
TIFF 2017: The director of “Valentino: The Last Emperor” profiles the studio system’s legendary procurer
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‘Breath’ Film Review: Simon Baker’s Surfing Drama Is Laid-Back but Entrancing
The “Mentalist” star makes his directorial debut with a coming-of-age drama that finds most of its action in the waves
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‘On Chesil Beach’ Film Review: Saoirse Ronan Drama Only Starts Out Like a Sex Comedy
After a light beginning as a nervous young couple approaches the wedding bed, the touching Ian McEwan adaptation gets darker and sadder
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‘Kings’ Film Review: Halle Berry Drama Gives a Female Perspective to LA Riots
“Mustang” director Deniz Gamze Erguven is skilled at portraying messy family ties, but her film falls short in other areas
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‘Kodachrome’ Film Review: Ed Harris, Jason Sudeikis Make Grown Men Cry
Estranged father-son drama packs emotional punch
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‘Borg/McEnroe’ Film Review: Shia LaBeouf Tennis Movie Mixes Backhands With Psychoanalysis
Janus Metz’ drama sets out to encapsulate the troubled journeys of Bjorn Borg and John McEnroe within one epic Wimbledon match
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‘The Leisure Seeker’ Film Review: Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland Highlight Touching Road Movie
Italian director Paolo Virzi delivers a bittersweet ode to things that are slipping away for people and for a country
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‘Don’t Talk to Irene’ Review: Nerd Girl Has Cheerleader Dreams in Familiar Outcast Comedy
TIFF 2017: Canada’s entry in the misfit-makes-good sweepstakes grates at first, then finds its rhythm
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‘The Final Year’ Film Review: Obama Doc Reminds Us What a Difference a Few Months Make
Watching intelligent, stable adults work on foreign policy may cause pangs of painful nostalgia
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James Franco on Re-Creating a Bad Movie in ‘The Disaster Artist’: ‘The Upside Down of ‘La La Land” (Video)
“There were so many meta levels,” co-star Alison Brie says
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‘Daguerrotype’ Film Review: Atmospheric Horror Feature Should Have Been a Short
Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (“Pulse”) pivots from romance to ghost story without ever finding his footing
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‘One of Us’ Review: Breaking up With G-d Is Hard to Do
Toronto: The directors of “Jesus Camp” focus, with empathy and understanding, on three people leaving Hasidic Judaism
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Sam Fragoso