David and Jackie Siegel live the high life – for a while – in The Queen Of Versailles.
“INSPIRED BY A BIZARRE TRUE STORY OF A PRANK CALLER WHO TARGETED THE EMPLOYEES OF RURAL FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS,
it’s a tightrope balance between squirm fest and morality play.” – THE NEW YORK TIMES
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“CHILLINGLY BRILLIANT.” – TIME OUT NY
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spectacular mutant beast, the likes of which we’ve never quite seen before. This is a movie where a vampire picks up a horse and throws it at Abraham Lincoln (Benjamin Walker) in the middle of an incredible ac tion set piece; in other words, it’s as batshit crazy as its title promises. 105 min. nnnn (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Alison Klayman) follows the efforts of the infamous Chinese artist and dissident to
make art and trouble (sometimes simul taneously). While preparing for a show at the Tate Modern, he also conducts an inves tigation into the construction of Chinese schools collapsed by the Sichuan earth quake – which gets him assaulted by a police officer and sent for emergency surgery to relieve the resulting swelling in his brain. Director Klayman’s sympathetic lens lets us see Ai as a man rather than a symbol, whose puckish wit allows him to make light of the darkest situations. But we’re never allowed to forget the risks he’s taking by poking fun at a system that doesn’t have a sense of humour. Some subtitles. 91 min. nnnn (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox
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(Marc Webb) gives the franchise a fresh start, though the key story points are still the same: Peter Parker (Andrew Garfield) is imbued with the speed and strength of a spider after an encounter with a genetically enhanced arachnid, and driven by tragedy to become a superhero. At two and a quar ter hours long, it could stand to lose 20 minutes, or add 20 more, but Garfield and Emma Stone make this SpiderMan feel pretty amazing indeed. 136 min. nnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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Opens Aug 10 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity
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Zeitlin) is an allegorical drama about the spirited, predominantly black inhabitants of a fictitious New Orleans district known as “the Bathtub” – so named because it’s a flood zone just waiting to happen. Seen through the eyes of sixyearold Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis), who narrates in a voice that’s meant to be simple yet pro found, the movie establishes a hazy, dream like state. Its early movements have a powerful, intuitive sort of energy, and Wal lis is terrific, utterly open and radiating emotion in every scene. But think about what you’re watching for even two seconds and the whole thing collapses; every sup porting character is a caricature of brusque resourcefulness, some literally killing them selves for the sake of homesteading. They’re not human beings, they’re narrative devices. It probably worked a lot better onstage, where Hushpuppy’s squalid, dangerous environment was largely left to the imagination; here, confronted with the horrible reality of the postapocalyptic Bathtub, you just want these morons to get the hell out. 93 min. nn (NW) Grande - Yonge, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity
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