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The Other F Word (Nevins, 2011)
November 5, 2011 – 4:48 pm | No Comment
<em>The Other F Word</em> (Nevins, 2011)

It is hard for me to say, precisely, when The Other F Word lost me for good.

Wrestling for Jesus (Clarke, 2011)
November 4, 2011 – 9:24 pm | No Comment
<em>Wrestling for Jesus</em> (Clarke, 2011)

When asked to describe his film, director Nathan Clarke said in an interview, he likes to say it is “everything you expect from the title and everything you don’t.”

Tyrannosaur (Considine, 2011)
September 16, 2011 – 11:58 pm | No Comment
<em>Tyrannosaur</em> (Considine, 2011)

This is the reason I go the Toronto Film Festival every year. This.

Habemus Papam (Moretti, 2011)
September 15, 2011 – 11:55 pm | No Comment
<em>Habemus Papam</em> (Moretti, 2011)

I won’t call Habemus Papam one of my most anticipated films of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, but it was certainly one of the films about which I was most curious.

The Kid With a Bike (Dardenne & Dardenne, 2011)
September 14, 2011 – 9:07 pm | No Comment
<em>The Kid With a Bike</em> (Dardenne & Dardenne, 2011)

The more I think about The Kid With a Bike, the more I like it. 

A Separation (Farhadi, 2011)
September 11, 2011 – 7:37 pm | No Comment
<em>A Separation</em> (Farhadi, 2011)

Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation is a riveting domestic drama that works equally well as a character study and a social critique. An ensemble cast without a weak link helps illustrate an infuriating–at times almost despair …