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Movie Critic, Toronto Star | President, Toronto Film Critics Association | Author, "Movies I Can't Live Without" | CCA (BFCA) member | Ex rock critic.

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    Sep 11

    NOMADLAND: Bound for glory. Chloé Zhao dramatizes Jessica Bruder's urgent reportage about rootless Americans for an awards season stunner. Frances McDormand's wanderer Fern balances grief and resiliency. A role and story drawn from life, it feels like classic fiction.

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  2. 24 hours ago

    "In truth, the horse left the barn for the slaughterhouse." — In a column for , Canada's Denis Villeneuve socks it to the suits at Warner Bros. and AT&T for sending his film and the rest of the 2021 WB slate to same-day streaming/theatrical:

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  3. Dec 10

    Awards tonight (12/10) for two great Canadian filmmakers at 7th annual Doc Institute Honours: BMO-DOC Vanguard Award to 𝗠𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿 ("Inconvenient Indian," "Trickster") and Rogers-DOC Luminary Award to 𝗔𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀 𝗢𝗯𝗼𝗺𝘀𝗮𝘄𝗶𝗻 (50+ NFB films). Brava!

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  4. Dec 10

    Deck the halls ... 𝑫𝒖𝒉-𝒏𝒖𝒉, 𝒏𝒖𝒉-𝒏𝒖𝒉-𝒏𝒖𝒉 With boughs of holly ... 𝑵𝒖𝒉-𝒏𝒖𝒉-𝒏𝒖𝒉, 𝒏𝒖𝒉-𝒏𝒖𝒉-𝒏𝒖𝒉 ...

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  5. Dec 9

    Via , answer to my query of how Bob Dylan could claim ownership of "The Weight," written by The Band's Robbie Robertson. Turns out Dylan owns this tune and all the other original tunes on "Music From Big Pink," The Band's debut, due to publishing sleight-of-hand.

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  6. Dec 9

    THE MIDNIGHT SKY (⭐⭐): It's the end of the world as we snow it. Half post-apocalyptic Arctic plodder, half "Lost in Space" knockoff, George Clooney's latest astral trip shoots for the stars but thuds on the ice.

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  7. Dec 9

    And our virtual awards gala will be on March 9, 2021, three months from today!

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    Save the date! Our critics vote on the TFCA Awards Feb. 7 @ noon Toronto time. (Nomination ballots due Feb. 5 at 8pm) This year's vote includes both theatrical & streaming releases, and considers films released through March 31, 2021. 🏆
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  8. Dec 9

    Annual Canada's Top Ten features list includes Michelle Latimer's "Inconvenient Indian," Deepa Mehta's "Funny Boy" and Brandon Cronenberg's "Possessor." But is it the "cut" or "uncut" version of Cronenberg's horror?

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  9. Dec 8

    Fascinating factoid about $300 million sale of his music to Universal. Just one of the more than 600 songs sold wasn't written by him: The Band's "The Weight," penned by 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗯𝗶𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀𝗼𝗻. Wonder what Robbie thinks?

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  10. Dec 6

    The peace and love 1960s come to a violent end at Altamont '69 in "Gimme Shelter," a doc turning 50 this weekend:

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  11. Dec 3

    𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿's drama conjures the birth of "Citizen Kane" and rips into Hollywood, for one of the year's best films. My review for :

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  12. Dec 1

    Fun-loving officials of the San Juan County Sheriff's Office in Utah have put online a Wanted poster of nine possible "suspects" in the case of the missing . I don't want to rush to judgement, but my money is on the hard-partying Earthling in the upper right corner.

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  13. Dec 1

    Vimeo is showcasing award-winning short doc "No Crying at the Dinner Table," by Toronto's 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗹 𝗡𝗴𝘂𝘆𝗲𝗻, which premiered at . She turns the camera on her family to coax out revelations about "things left unsaid," with illuminating results:

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  14. Nov 29

    Bummer that the Utah monolith has now vanished as mysteriously as it arrived. Word has it, though, that it's enroute to Jupiter, with a stopover on the Moon:

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  15. Nov 25

    Unsettling thought that Toronto's current 28-day has the same time frame as Danny Boyle's horror thriller "28 Days Later." This may explain why so many of us are feeling like zombies.

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  16. Nov 24

    The ultimate fan or fans of must live in the wilds of Utah. I thought this was a joke, but the says the monolith is real. As Dr. Floyd would say, its origin and purpose are still a total mystery:

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  17. Nov 19

    Warner Bros. says it wants to "super-serve our fans" by bringing out simultaneously in theatres and via the HBO Max Streaming service on Dec. 25. Maybe they could also put it out on VHS the same day, to pay tribute to the popular home format of 1984.

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  18. Nov 17

    Quentin Tarantino has long talked about becoming an author as he eases out of filmmaking. He'll begin with a paperback novelization of his 2019 hit "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood," due next summer, followed by the non-fiction "Cinema Speculation" book on movies of the 1970s.

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  19. Nov 17

    New trailer for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival is like a greatest hits collection of past:

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  20. Nov 15

    I suspect the many superb copy editors I know — including , , and — are enjoying all the online corrections being made to the "he won" tweet by . But would they put a period after won?

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  21. Nov 13

    Is the rover a movie fan, or is this a coincidence? Curiousity just sent back a selfie from a location in a Mars crater that's nicknamed "Mary Anning," after the 19th century English fossil hunter whom Kate Winslet plays in , out this week.

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