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TORONTO – “Silent Night,” which debuted at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival last week, starts off like a familiar holiday comedy. Multiple friends, along with their significant others and kids, reuniting for the Christmas holiday at a beautiful home in the English countryside.

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As you’d expect, even the most acclaimed filmmakers slow down in their later years. Sure, Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg are exceptions, but for the most part opportunities are fewer and farther between.

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‘Montana Story’ Trailer: Haley Lu Richardson’s Estranged Siblings TIFF Drama Arrives In May

An occasional downside to films premiering at film festivals is hearing early praise, which raises excitement to see them, and then comes a long wait before even any proper release dates are made public. A personal example is wanting to see Jerrod Carmichael’s “On the Count of Three,” which over a year after its premiere at Sundance 2021 has had complete radio silence in regards to a proper release.

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‘Saloum’ Is A Kinetic, Genre-Bending Revenge Story [TIFF Review]

Guns, gold bars, drug lords, military coups, folk heroes, tall tales, and ghost stories. Is there a 2021 film that gives more bang for the buck than Jean Luc Herbulot’s superb “Saloum”? This is not a case of “too much” movie, where the director and screenwriter thoughtlessly stuff as many ingredients into the pot as they can and hope the concoction doesn’t boil over.

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‘Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’: An Offbeat Martial Arts Romance That Really Wants To Become A Cult Classic [TIFF Review]

Cult classics generally don’t happen on purpose and they usually don’t happen in just 10 days, either. Sam Raimi shot “Evil Dead” on a budget that would’ve paid for only half a shoestring back in 1981; Oliver Benjamin founded Dudeism, a religion inspired by the Coen Brothers’ “The Big Lebowski,” in 2005, 7 years after the film premiered; SNL’s “MacGyver” parody, “MacGruber,” crashed and burned at the box office and with critics in 2010 then rose from the ashes over the following decade, embraced as the masterpiece that it is.

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‘The Mad Women’s Ball’: Mélanie Laurent’s Latest Drama Is An Uncompromising Defense Of Female Bodily Autonomy [TIFF Review]

For generations, women who pushed against their expected roles in life were written off as mad, and in extreme cases, locked away. For equally as long, these women were fodder for art that depicted their madness as evil.

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‘Beba’: Rebeca Huntt’s Earnest Documentary Struggles With Perspective [TIFF Review]

Everyone knows someone like Rebeca Huntt. A born-and-bred New Yorker, she came of age in a one-bedroom apartment on the Upper West Side, her family’s pride and joy.

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‘Unclenching the Fists:’ A Bleak, Unflinching Russian Coming-of-Age Tale [TIFF Review]

To open: Ada (Milana Aguzarova), a young woman living in North Ossetia, is planted against the cement wall by the freeway. As the tumult of cars rushes by, a young man — the seemingly lovesick Tamik (Arsen Khetagurov) — calls for her.

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‘Huda’s Salon’: Hany Abu-Assad Offers a Fearless Reckoning on Women’s Oppression in Occupied Palestine [TIFF Review]

There’s no escape for the women in Hany Abu-Assad’s blistering new film “Huda’s Salon,” a fearless statement on gender oppression shaped as an edge-of-your-seat thriller. Back in top form, the acclaimed director behind stunners such as “Paradise Now” and “Omar” returns to dissecting the perilous Palestinian experience under Israeli control.

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Haley Lu Richardson Wonderfully Keeps ‘Montana Story’ On The Ground [TIFF Review]

TORONTO – The filmmaking partnership of Scott McGehee and David Siegel has forged what can only be described as an unexpected path. After their 2001 breakout indie thriller “The Deep End” the duo found creative success in family dramas such as “Bee Season” and “What Maisie Knew.” Now, after an eight-year break following “Maise,” they return with “Montana Story,” a strangely thin melodrama held together by Haley Lu Richardson’s captivating performance.

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‘Wildhood’ Exclusive Teaser: The Canadian Coming-Of-Age Film Debuts At This Year’s TIFF

Coming-of-age films have been a mainstay in cinema for decades. By now, you would think that audiences have seen just about every iteration of the genre that features young people figuring out their lives through some sort of monumental event.

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‘Wildhood’ Exclusive Teaser: The Canadian Coming-Of-Age Film Debuts At This Year’s TIFF

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‘The Mad Women’s Ball’ Trailer: Mélanie Laurent Writes, Directs & Stars In New TIFF Period Drama

Even though she’s still a big-name actor around the world, Mélanie Laurent has been flexing her filmmaking muscles quite a bit in recent years. And for her next film, “The Mad Women’s Ball,” she’s not only starring, but also writing and directing the drama.

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