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Sep 15, 2026
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Sep 11, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Richard Lawson

    The Debut review – Julianne Moore is a thrill in Jesse Eisenberg’s oddball comedy (opens the original)

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    Toronto film festival: riotous lead performance holds together third movie from actor turned film-maker, about a housewife who joins a local musical Jesse Eisenberg’s last two directorial efforts – the prickly comedy When You Finish Saving the World and the slightly softer A Real Pain – are small films rooted in the real world. They have their little idiosyncrasies, their bits of cinematic flair, but they keep their feet grounded in the here and now. For his third film, Eisenberg has said

  2. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Richard Lawson

    Prima Facie review – fiery one-woman play is flattened into a bland movie (opens the original)

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    Toronto film festival: Cynthia Erivo takes on the role Jodie Comer made famous for a pointless adaptation of a story about rape and retribution that loses the power it once had Suzie Miller’s award-winning 2019 play Prima Facie employs a familiar narrative device: a hotshot London barrister finds herself on the other side of the bar, subject to the very legal tactics she once so ruthlessly employed. Not as a defendant, but as the accuser in a rape case. We’ve seen versions of this before –

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Richard Lawson

    Being Heumann review – Coda director’s disability rights drama is well-intentioned but clunky (opens the original)

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    Toronto film festival: the rousing story of Judith Heumann makes for obvious dramatic fodder and at times this biopic finds a rebellious groove but too much feels cut-and-paste On my way to Toronto, I wheeled my suitcase toward the taxi that would take me to the airport, finding the curb cut in the sidewalk so that my luggage could roll seamlessly down to the street. What a nice convenience provided by municipal governments all over the United States, one that so many of us take wholly for grant

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