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'Zone Of Interest'
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Adapted by director Jonathan Glazer ("Under the Skin", TIFF ’13) from Martin Amis' novel, "The Zone of Interest" centres on the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), and
his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), strive to build a dream life for their
family in a house and garden next to the infamous Nazi death camp.
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'The Promised Land'
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Mads Mikkelsen reunites with director Nikolaj Arcel (who worked together in 2012's "The Royal Affair") in this drama about Ludvig Kahlen — the illegitimate son of a maid and a nobleman, who defied his low status to succeed in Denmark’s military — as he tries to tame Jutland in 18th-century Denmark.
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'The New Boy'
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Set in the 1940s, the latest from writer-director-cinematographer Warwick Thornton (TIFF 2017’s "Sweet Country") is a spiritual drama that’s equal parts magic and heartache.
After being abducted by police, an unnamed Aboriginal boy (Angus Reid) is delivered to a remote rural monastery where Sister Eileen (Cate Blanchett) oversees a shelter for abandoned children. Eileen is caring and patient with those in her charge, but she is resolute in her mission to convert these young souls to Christianity. The new boy doesn’t speak English and resists adopting his keepers’ standards of civilized comportment, but he does seem responsive to Eileen’s religious instruction, embracing a beautifully carved crucifix with innate reverence. What’s more, the new boy appears to possess miraculous abilities akin to those of Eileen’s chosen saviour — abilities that might recede if Eileen fails to recognize how Christian and Indigenous beliefs can exist in harmony.
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'The Holdovers'
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Paul Giamatti stars in director Alexander Payne’s latest about the bond that forms between a strict professor and a belligerent student he’s stuck supervising over the winter holiday at an elite boarding school.
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'The Dead Don't Hurt'
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Set in the 1860s, Viggo Mortensen’s second outing as writer-director (after "Falling", TIFF ’20) is an elegantly realized feminist western starring Mortensen himself as a Danish immigrant and Vicky Krieps as a fiercely independent French-Canadian woman attempting to forge a life in a corrupt California town.
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'Woman Of The Hour'
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Making her directorial debut, Anna Kendrick examines uncomfortable gender dynamics with the stranger-than-fiction story of serial killer Rodney Alcala’s appearance on "The Dating Game" in the middle of his 1970s murder spree.
Kendrick also plays Cheryl Bradshaw, the struggling actor who decided to book an appearance on the show where she would have a chilling run-in with Alcala. While this confrontation serves as the spine of the film, viewers are taken backward and forward through time, exploring Alcala’s murders, with a performance by Daniel Zovatto that captures the disquieting hubris of a man who knows he’s operating in a world too skewed to catch him.
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'The Burial'
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Oscar winners Tommy Lee Jones and Jamie Foxx star in director Maggie Betts' rousing David and Goliath courtroom drama about one family’s struggle to hold onto their mom-and-pop funeral home in the face of heartless corporate exploitation.
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'Stop Making Sense'
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One of the most anticipated entries this year is this new 4K restoration of Talking Heads’ classic concert movie, directed by the late Jonathan Demme and filmed over three nights at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983. As a bonus, David Byrne and the rest of the band will reunite for the first time in more than 20 years for a one-time-only performance.
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'Sorry Not Sorry'
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In this new documentary, filmmakers Caroline Suh and Cara Mones re-examine the case of comedian Louis C.K., who was accused of sexual harassment in 2017. They explore his comeback and the unseen effects of this on the women who spoke publicly about his behaviour.
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'Sly'
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As Sylvester Stallone literally packs up his stuff to move to Palm Beach from Hollywood, filmmaker Thom Zimny — who hung out with Bruce Springsteen for the thoughtful, casually valedictory documentary "Western Stars" (TIFF ’19) — helps him sift through his metaphorical baggage and come to terms with his status as a cultural touchstone in this probing documentary.
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'Reptile'
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Grant Singer directs Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro, Oscar nominee Justin Timberlake and Alicia Silverstone in this moody, intricate New England–set noir in which the worlds of real estate, narcotics trafficking, and police work merge.
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'Poolman'
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Chris Pine makes his directorial debut with a kinetic noir comedy, in which he plays an anxious pool cleaner who uncovers a curious conspiracy in the city of Los Angeles, boasting a brilliant cast that includes Jennifer Jason Leigh, Annette Bening and Danny DeVito.
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'Pain Hustlers'
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Based on the real-life story of capitalism run amok in journalist Evan Hughes book "The Hard Sell" the latest from director David Yates follows. Liza Drake (Emily Blunt), a single mom working as a dancer at a bar when she meets Pete Brenner (Chris Evans), a greasy drug rep for a pharmaceutical startup on the verge of bankruptcy. With a hunch about her talent, he recruits her to peddle a new kind of opioid designed to give pain relief to cancer patients.
Liza eventually wakes up to the harm she’s sowing, which only complicates her relationship with Brenner, as he begins to see her as more than just a sales quota.
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'One Life'
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Directed by James Hawes, "One Life" stars Sir Anthony Hopkins as Sir Nicholas Winton, a mild-mannered British stockbroker who helped rescue hundreds of children from Europe on the verge of the Second World War, an act of compassion that was almost forgotten for 50 years.
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'North Star'
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For her feature directorial debut, Kristin Scott Thomas leads Scarlett Johansson, Sienna Miller and Emily Beechum in a charming family drama about three sisters who are hung up on the men in their lives, as their mother (played by Thomas) prepares for her third wedding.
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'Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe'
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Robert McCallum’s documentary looks at the life and work of Ernie Coombs, the nerdy American artist who became one of the CBC’s most beloved children's personalities — a grown-up pal to kids across the country for nearly 30 years, both on his TV show and in innumerable public appearances. The film also explores the love story of Coombs, his wife Lynn, and their kids, who grew up sharing their father with every other child in Canada.
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'Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero'
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Documentary filmmakers Carlos López Estrada and Zac Manuel embedded themselves with Lil Nas X as he navigated the whirlwind of fame, creativity, and growing responsibility that came with his meteoric success. The resultant film features spectacular tour footage and fascinating glimpses of life backstage, interwoven with Montero pre-fame — even then, his vision and ambition were clear.
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'Lee'
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Directed by Ellen Kuras, Oscar winner Kate Winslet stars in this fascinating portrait of the great American photojournalist Lee Miller, whose singular talent and ferocious tenacity gave us some of the 20th century’s most indelible images.
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'Knox Goes Away'
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After a job goes horribly wrong, John Knox (Michael Keaton, who also directs) resigns himself to the knowledge that his contract killing days are over and starts gathering his assets to cash out. One night, though, his estranged son, Miles (James Marsden), shows up at his door. Covered in blood and barely able to speak, he begs his father for help covering up a violent crime. Knox sees only one way out, developing a tricky scheme with multiple steps that require precise execution. He enlists the confidence of his friend Xavier (Al Pacino) to keep him on track and begins a race against the clock — and his quickly deteriorating condition — as the police begin to close in with their investigation.
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'In Restless Dreams: The Music Of Paul Simon'
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Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney offers a definitive portrait of Paul Simon, following him inside the studio making his new album "Seven Psalms" while looking back on his six-decade career with countless musical peaks from "Sounds of Silence" to "Graceland".
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'Hit Man'
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In the latest from director Richard Linklater, Gary Johnson (Glen Powell) is a philosophy professor by day, lecturing his students on theories of morality. In his downtime he works with the police in surveillance vans as a tech-savvy staff investigator during undercover sting operations. When the temperamental officer who normally plays the role of hit man is placed on leave for misconduct, milquetoast Gary is asked to step in because he vaguely resembles the ousted officer. To everyone’s surprise, Gary thrives impersonating the fabricated killers.
One day, Gary, in character as Ron, the charismatic lone-wolf hit man, meets would-be client Madison (Adria Arjona), who is desperate to get out of her abusive marriage. Sparks fly. Soon, he reaches out to Madison outside of their arrangement to start a decidedly non-professional but steamy fling. But as Gary attempts to keep his various personas separate, his lies accumulate and someone actually ends up dead. He finds himself in the middle of a real crime with all evidence leading back to him.
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'Hate To Love: Nickelback'
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Nickelback is one of the most successful acts in music history — and they’re also the band haters most love to hate. This intimate portrait from director Leigh Brooks surveys the Canadian stadium rockers’ rollercoaster career and reveals the abiding love for music that keeps them together.
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'Dumb Money'
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Paul Dano and Seth Rogen find themselves on opposite ends during a tug-of-war, in director Craig Gillespie’s take on the outrageous battle of wits between amateur investors and hedge fund billionaires that became the infamous GameStop Wall Street scandal.
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'Dicks: The Musical'
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Larry Charles ("Borat") conducts an uproarious musical-comedy riff on "The Parent Trap" that follows a pair of identical twins who conspire to reunite their divorced and disturbingly deranged parents (Nathan Lane and Megan Mullally).
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'Concrete Utopia'
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In the opening moments of South Korean director Um Tae-hwa’s riveting new disaster epic, an earthquake renders much of Seoul a smouldering ruin. But as survivors begin efforts to restore order, it seems the real calamity has only just begun.
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'Anatomy Of A Fall'
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Winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, French director Justine Triet’s "Anatomy of a Fall" is a riveting portrait of a complex woman (German actress Sandra Hüller) put on trial for the murder of her spouse.
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'All The Light We Cannot See'
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Canadian director Shawn Levy brings Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel to the screen in this highly anticipated Netflix miniseries, with an ensemble cast including Mark Ruffalo and Hugh Laurie.
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