"The Girl with the Needle" & "Grand Theft Hamlet" (& Gene Hackman) 🔒
Two reviews of new movies, one Oscar-nominated and the other fun. Plus, my WaPo Gene Hackman appreciation.
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Watch List Digest 9/17/26: The TIFF Edition
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TIFF Report IV: Batting Clean-Up
Reviews of "Babies," "Bucking Fastard," "Edward Said: Between Worlds," "Everybody Wants to F*ck Me," "The Face of Horror," "Love of Your Life," "Possible Love," "The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives," "A Talent for Murder," "Union Town"
TIFF Report III: "Elsinore," "Bitter Christmas," "Being Heumann," "Alpha Gang"
A new Almodóvar, a feel-good biopic of a disability-rights legend, a likely Best Actor bell-ringer and, from the Zellner brothers, one of the damnedest things I've ever seen,
TIFF Report II: "I Play Rocky,""Ink,” "Up Against It," "The Long Winter"
An underdog story about an underdog story is an unexpected highlight at the Toronto Film Festival