Author: Caitlin Abe Gokool
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Wildcat [TIFF 2023]
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With another biopic this year, Ethan Hawke directs a unique rendition of the telling of a part of writer Flannery O’Connor’s history, with his daughter in the lead. Starring Maya Hawke as author O’Connor, Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat borrows its name from one of the acclaimed author’s first short stories from 1947, to tell the story of the…
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Dumb Money [TIFF 2023]
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The world of finance is an elusive one to many. With billions of dollars seeming to be funnelled almost daily into the pockets of a select few by their betting on the lives of businesses, is truly an area where a film can tell a good underdog story. Craig Gillespie’s latest film, Dumb Money, tells the…
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Next Goal Wins [TIFF 2023]
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Next Goal Wins comes at a crucial time in the career of director and co-writer Taika Waititi. Following his acclaimed comedic drama Hunt For the Wilderpeople (2016) and Oscar-nominated film Jojo Rabbit (2019), viewers noticed a clear dip in the quality of films. Since then, his second Marvel Studios film, Thor: Love and Thunder, has gone on to earn a…
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The Holdovers [TIFF 2023]
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The private all-boys school setting seems to historically be the setting of many stories exploring hypocrisy, tradition, and the dangers of forming assumptions about another person’s life. The Holdovers, the latest film from director Alexander Payne of Election (1999) and Sideways (2004) is no exception, but does something more with this tried and true setting and its wealthy, privileged boys…
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The Zone of Interest [TIFF 2023]
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How do we recognize evil around us? How do we know that what we have been taught and what we believe is not continuing this evil around us? Jonathan Glazer’s latest film, The Zone of Interest, poses these questions in its exploration of the Holocaust and World War II following the life of a Nazi…
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The End We Start From [TIFF 2023]
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It’s easy for an adaptation of a piece of writing to lose character depth or interiority in the translation between media forms. Especially for stories featuring a single protagonist who is largely on their journey alone, each filmmaker’s different approach to overcoming this obstacle is unique. For Megan Hunter’s novel The End We Start From,…
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Lee [TIFF 2023]
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In what is continuing to be the year of the biopic comes Lee (2023), a passion project of star Kate Winslet directed by Ellen Kuras. Winslet plays Lee Miller, the model turned World War II photographer known for her historical documentation of Europe after the war. Focussing on some of the most prolific years of…
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Quiz Lady [TIFF 2023]
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Following her direction of many television shows and documentary films, as well as her 1996 Oscar win for Best Documentary Short Subject, director Jessica Yu next tackles the fairly underrepresented topic of the sister comedy. Her film, Quiz Lady, stars Awkwafina and Sandra Oh as two sisters who could not be more different. After learning…
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Bottoms
From director Emma Seligman of Shiva Baby (2020) comes the latest raunchy, horny, and bloody coming-of-age teen film, Bottoms (2023). Compared by many to so many films come before including Easy A (2010), Superbad (2007), and Booksmart (2019), Seligman takes the seeds planted by those before her in the teen comedy, embraces the messy, and…
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Woman of the Hour [TIFF 2023]
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In her directorial debut, Anna Kendrick tackles the real life story of serial killer Rodney Alcala’s appearance on a 1978 episode of The Dating Game amidst his almost decade-long killing spree. Focussing largely on Cheryl Bradshaw, the bachelorette of the game played by director Kendrick, this main story is intercut with multiple scenes tracking Alcala’s…
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