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The Best Movies of 2015

Addison Wylie 2015 was a great year for movies, and I hope returning readers will see those results on the lists below.  However, I understand if my favourites at the tip of the iceberg aren’t surprising – they haven’t changed since the mid-year report.  A couple of excellent documentaries, and an army of dogs set the bar astronomically high.  On another note, I hope people will consider checking out the films that flesh out the…

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TIFF 2015: ‘Louder Than Bombs’

By: Shannon Page Louder than Bombs’s non-linear plot follows a widower named Gene Reed (Gabriel Byrne) and his sons, Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) and Conrad (Devin Druid), as they navigate life two years after the death of Gene’s wife Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert) who was an acclaimed conflict photographer.  Jonah, now a university professor, returns to his childhood home to sort through his mother’s things prior to an upcoming retrospective on her life’s work. Given the subject…