Our critic April Wolfe is filing updates all week from the Toronto International Film Festival.Writer-director Ivan I. Tverdovsky may be a 20-something male, but in
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Fanboys are still gushing over the surprise TV hit of the summer, Stranger Things. SURVIVE, a middling Austin four-piece who provided the show's darkwave-mod-syn
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What happens when a director takes his own life before he's able to see his work open in theaters? In the case of Marcin Wrona and Demon, his mesmerizing Polish art-
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The most destructive villain in this year's summer movies isn't some super-powered fiend. It's us, the consumers of North America, whose desires shape th
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The Bachelor stands erect as the vanguard of heterosexual romance competitions. Bachelor in Paradise (BIP), whose third season concludes this week, is the sunburnt,
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The techniques of verbatim theater go back decades, to at least the 1950s, when young German theater troupes would re-enact complicated court cases word for word ons
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Like his?American Sniper (2014), Clint Eastwood's Sully is a movie of nightmares. In Sniper, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) sits rigidly in the living room, imagining t
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Horror has in recent years been so informed by found footage, smartphones and Skype that a trend toward folklore was probably inevitable. Far from trying to capture
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A decade after the fact, the scandal of JT LeRoy ? the HIV-positive, young male (though gender-fluid) writer adored by scores of global alt-celebrities who was revea
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Here's a gorgeous and audacious slice of East Bay life that's dreamily attentive to Northern California sun and concrete, to the decrepit beauty of a street
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Leonard Nimoy's 1975 memoir I Am Not Spock stirred fan outrage: How dare the actor, who was indeed Spock in the original Star Trek series, publicly dismiss his belov
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Christian Carion's refugees-on-the-march World War II drama Come What May is the kind of old-fashioned war movie that's crafted not just to emphasize history
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