A look at TIFF reviews of Daybreakers, Valhalla Rising, I Don Giovanni and Trash Humpers

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At long last, Apple has the first trailer for New York, I Love You a series of short films on a theme of love set in The Big Apple (ala Paris, Je T’aime)

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The new one sheet for the omnibus film New York, I Love You

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Originally scheduled for release around Valentine’s Day, the anthology film New York, I Love You was one of LiC’s more anticipated films of this year, but then it went and dropped off radar.
Thankfully, Dave McNary reports in Variety this evening that distributor Vivendi Entertainment will be releasing the film on October 16.
The spiritual cousin of [...]

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David Strathairn and Paul Giamatti in Cold Souls
You know the drill so I’ll omit the customary pleasantries and get right down to it.
Brooklyn’s Finest. Antoine Fuqua returns to Training Day territory with this tale of three different New York cops – un undercover narcotics officer who wants out, a detective tempted by corruption because of [...]

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Ethan Hawke and Mark Ruffalo in What Doesn’t Kill You
(Ed. This is the first of what I hope is a continuing series of reviews from new LiC contributor Sam Kressner. Catch Sam’s introduction below.)
The latest Irish crime drama set in the Southside of Boston, What Doesn’t Kill You deals less with lofty abstractions of nihilism [...]

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In my turkey-induced post-Thanksgiving coma, I missed the trailer for What Doesn’t Kill You, which hit the Internet on Friday. I’ll officially watch just about anything with Mark Ruffalo in it.
 
Two boyhood friends (Mark Ruffalo and Ethan Hawke) on a downward spiral of crime in South Boston are imprisoned. While one turns over a new [...]

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