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Green Zone

“I’m here to save lives and find weapons,” announces Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Matt Damon) early on in Green Zone. The ostensibly sobering punch line of Paul Greengrass’ Iraq War thriller is that, despite being a principled, determined slab of All-American beef, he fails to meet...

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She’s Out of My League

BY Mira Saraf

The key to enjoying She’s Out of My League is to walk in with no expectations of plot or character depth.

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Remember Me

BY Chandler Levack

For a film bent so surely on ascending its brooding star to the status of “actor,” Remember Me is surprisingly good.

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Cactus

BY Veena Sunderam

With a wealth of experience behind the camera as a cinematographer, Jasmine Yuen Carrucan takes a leap with her directorial debut, Cactus, which explores an unlikely bond between a kidnapper and his...

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Our Family Wedding

Acclaimed actor Forest Whitaker enters Martin Lawrence territory in Our Family Wedding, a comedy about race relations in which the high point involves an...

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Prodigal Sons

Rarely since Capturing the Friedmans has there been such a brave and bracing portrait of a family in crisis as Prodigal Sons.

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Everyone Else

If one festival’s cast-off is another’s treasure, then Toronto is looting the Vancouver International Film Festival with the local debut of the German drama...

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Encirclement: Neo-Liberalism Ensnares Democracy

The mathematically precise aesthetics of Montreal filmmaker Richard Brouillette’s documentary belie the unruly dimensions of its content: its 10 rigorously...

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Garbage Dreams

If the sight of heroic underdogs rummaging through trash in order to survive doesn’t strike you as life-affirming and poetic, then you haven’t seen Garbage...

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Alice in Wonderland

Tim Burton beats the odds with his pleasingly oddball Lewis Carroll update

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