Is it just me or is there a little bit of Toronto ennui in the air? It’s not just indifference at LiC, I’m noticing it on the blogs actually covering the event. I didn’t focus on Toronto last year so perhaps this is par for the course.
I didn’t mention yesterday that Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler [...]

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Zac Effron and Christian McKay in Me and Orson Welles
Richard (Slacker) Linklater’s Orson Welles bio Me and Orson Welles unspooled at Toronto this evening, but the LA Times anti-blogger turned bloggy-blogger Patrick Goldstein got a sneak preview last night and he loved it.
The film takes place in 1937, a year before the Mercury Theatre Company’s [...]

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As Toronto fires up and Venice winds down, here’s a smattering of reviews of the higher profile films critics are talking about.
The Wrestler. Though he found the plot of Darren Aronofsky’s film predictable at times, THR’s Stephen Farber liked this story of a former wrestling star, especially the performances, calling Mickey Rourke’s a career-best:
“Rourke dispenses [...]

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