As you watch Sandhya Suri’s Santosh, you can feel it crawl under your skin and make its way into your blood, hastening its pace until your heart is in your throat and you can taste steel. As you watch Santosh, you can feel it possess you, so much so that when you walk out after…

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15.11.2024

TIFF ‘24: The Tender Embrace of ‘Sweet Angel Baby’ – Film Daze

In Melanie Oates’s Sweet Angel Baby, a small fishing town rests calmly against the roiling and raging Labrador Sea. Everything moves with the grain in town — if you grow up here, you either move away or stay forever, marrying your high school sweetheart and aging into your parents, maybe with a bigger and more expensive…

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15.11.2024

TIFF ‘24 Review: There is Something Off About ‘Heretic’ – Film Daze

There’s something off about Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’s Heretic, something rotten at its pit that leaves the film feeling macabre in its subtext in a way that feels unintentional. The film follows two young women, Mormon missionaries Sister Paxton (Chloe East) and Sister Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) as they visit the home of Mr. Reed…

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15.11.2024

TIFF ‘24 Review: The Insatiate Horror of ‘The Girl with the Needle’ – Film Daze

Velvety shadows cut into the pristine fabric of light like sharp daggers, and faces contort with devious abandon under the weight of a brutal existence. Amidst the cold indifference of a stony city, a warm friendship is first forged and then cataclysmically broken. A visual feast of glorious strangeness, The Girl with the Needle offers…

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TIFF ‘24 Review: The Immense Power of ‘Santosh’ – Film Daze

TIFF ‘24: The Tender Embrace of ‘Sweet Angel Baby’ – Film Daze

TIFF ‘24 Review: There is Something Off About ‘Heretic’ – Film Daze

TIFF ‘24 Review: The Insatiate Horror of ‘The Girl with the Needle’ – Film Daze

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