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Oct 10, 2024 | 
mrwillwong.com | Nicholas Porteous
#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TRAILER FOR “CONCLAVE” Today we get a new Trailer for CONCLAVE, in theatres this November via Elevation Pictures.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
mrwillwong.com | Nicholas Porteous
#TIFF24: “PRESENCE” REVIEW By Nicholas PorteousWe open on a particularly bland overhead shot as a car pulls into a driveway.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
mrwillwong.com | Nicholas Porteous |Amanda Gilmore
#SUNDANCE: “PRESENCE” REVIEW By Amanda GilmoreIt’s been 35 years since Director Steven Soderbergh has had a Feature film at Sundance.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
mrwillwong.com | Nicholas Porteous
#TIFF24: “THE END” REVIEW By Nicholas Porteous In Joshua Oppenheimer‘s first narrative feature The End, our planet has become uninhabitable, and an opulent, extended family (Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, George MacKay, Bronagh Gallagher, Tim McInnerny and Lennie James) clings to existence in a salt mine. Their days are spent hanging paintings, tending to toy models of the past, and getting in a bit of exercise. If you’re feeling a bit aimless–in any aspect of your existence–wait til you...
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
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#TIFF24: “THE ASSESSMENT” REVIEW By Nicholas PorteousMia (Elizabeth Olsen) and her partner Aaryan (Himesh Patel) want a child.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
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#TIFF24: “THE BRUTALIST” REVIEW By Nicholas Porteous Brady Corbet’s ginormous, 215-minute period epic The Brutalist tells the story of Laszlo Toth--played Adrien Brody, who is phenomenal in the role. Toth was a legendary architect who escaped the holocaust and literally cemented his legacy with a series of glorious buildings. One might imagine the hyperextended 3.5+ hour runtime would have to begin at the very beginning–Toth in the womb or thereabouts, but Corbet opens instead with his...
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
mrwillwong.com | Nicholas Porteous |Amanda Gilmore
#CANNES: “ASTEROID CITY” REVIEW By Amanda GilmoreVisionary Director Wes Anderson delivers a witty Sci-Fi about loneliness.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
mrwillwong.com | Nicholas Porteous
#TIFF24: “THE SHROUDS” REVIEW By Nicholas PorteousCrimes of the Future, David Cronenberg’s daring and mysterious last work, established “surgery is the new sex”.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
mrwillwong.com | Nicholas Porteous
#TIFF24: “RUMOURS” REVIEW By Nicholas Porteous At their annual summit, the G7 world leaders are tasked with writing a provisional statement in a cozy gazebo in the middle of the woods, but everything goes haywire and they become lost in a forest full of zombies and a giant pulsating brain. Y’know, standard TIFF fare. This is Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson‘s Rumours–a surprisingly vague title for such a specifically wacky film. “This isn’t Summer Camp” notes the British Prime...
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
mrwillwong.com | Nicholas Porteous
#TIFF24: “CONCLAVE” REVIEW By Nicholas Porteous The pope is dead and Ralph Fiennes must find his successor amongst an ever-shrinking field of candidates in Edward Berger‘s Conclave, based on the historical fiction novel by Robert Harris. This is Berger‘s followup to his Oscar-winning All Quiet On the Western Front, and it’s not hard to see the cinematic parallels. Conclave is brimming with painterly compositions, a sweeping dramatic scope about as large as Saint Peter’s Basilica, and a great...
