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The picture’s biggest liability to logic is the alien machine. Its mech-tech armaments seem entirely terrestrial and its ...

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Evy rarely goes out, and never looks out a window. We never see the exterior of the house, or anything else beyond a couple ...

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Set during the 1990s, times of sanctions and deprivation in the years after the first Gulf War, nine-year-old Lamia (Baneen ...

These Toronto-based filmmakers’ work found its way to me in the past: Violation, an effort at art house horror that left a whole lot to be desired. This film is taking their interest in genre in a ...

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An earlier version of this review appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival 2024. It’s taken awhile for Ron Howard’s survivalist melodrama (written by Haligonian Noah Pink, who also did ...