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Your Own Hall of Fame: Alex Ross Perry on “Videoheaven” and “Pavements”

By Adam Nayman Two movies, both alike in indignity, in the ’90s, where we lay our scene. Because neither Videoheaven nor Pavements—both...

28.01.2024 6

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TIFF 2023 | When Evil Lurks (Demián Rugna, Argentina) — Midnight Madness

By Adam Nayman In horror movies—as in life—rules are made to be broken. After learning that one of their fellow villagers has been infected with...

15.09.2023 6

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TIFF 2023 | Knox Goes Away (Michael Keaton, US) — Special Presentations

By Adam Nayman Say what you will about Birdman, but as a legacy showcase for Micahel Keaton, it was right on time, mining the tension between its...

14.09.2023 8

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TIFF 2023 | Shame on Dry Land (Axel Petersén, Sweden) — Platform

By Adam Nayman Everybody knows somebody like Dimman (Joel Spira), the harried, hapless huckster at the center of the Swedish thriller Shame on Dry...

13.09.2023 6

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TIFF 2023 | The Dead Don’t Hurt (Viggo Mortensen, Canada/Mexico/Denmark) — Special Presentations

By Adam Nayman  The slyest Viggo Mortensen’s multi-hyphenate Western gets is when his noble Danish carpenter character—who’s arrived in San...

12.09.2023 7

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TIFF 2023 | American Fiction (Cord Jefferson, US) — Special Presentations

By Adam Nayman  Playing a mildly acclaimed—and tenuously tenured—novelist wary of up-and-coming race-hustling Black writers and the white-run...

11.09.2023 7

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TIFF 2023 | The Royal Hotel (Kitty Green, Australia) — Gala Presentations

By Adam Nayman In addition to being one of the rare Sundance breakouts to earn its all-hands-on-deck hype, Kitty Green’s 2020 office horror movie...

07.09.2023 5

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