Movie Reviews of films that will be playing at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2018. Go to TIFF 2018 Movie Reviews and read reviews of films showing at the festival.
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Writers:
Nicole Holofcener, Ted Thompson (based on the novel by)
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THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS is another NETFLIX original and not a bad one at that. The film is set in Westport, Connecticut. One can only speculate the reason this one did not get made through the normal channels. This is a story of a middle-aged man who has left metaphorically the land of steady habits.
Anders Hill (Ben Mendelsohn) has quit his well paying job and divorced his life – the protagonist, like the film going against the natural flow of things. He figures life will be more rewarding but things get worse. When the film opens, he has just picked up a woman and having sex. Besides not being able to get it up, his adult son Preston (Thomas Mann) rejects him. Oddly enough, he bonds and smokes up with the neighbours drug-culled son Charlie (Charlie Tahan).
When Charlie commits suicide, Anders is blamed. Holofcener (ENOUGH SAID) is good at this kind of films. She gets into her characters and keeps her film well paced, intelligent and smart.







SUNDAY DINNER, 15min., USA, Documentary
SCORCHED: MINE FIRES IN PENNSYLVANIA COAL COUNTRY, 6min., USA, Documentary
A GOOD BLINDER, 26min., USA, Documentary
ALL FALLS DOWN, 6min., USA, Experimental/Documentary
NIGHT LIVE, 7min., China, Experimental/New Media
FOR THE LOVE OF THE CHILD, 38min., USA, Documentary
PLEASURE BOYS, 8min., UK, Documentary
FACE BLIND, 4min., CAN, Documentary
FRONTLINE FENTANYL, 23min., CAN, Documentary
SUNUNU: THE REVOLUTION OF LOVE, 24min., UK, Documentary
ONE MAGAZINE AT A TIME, 4min., USA, Documentary
BREATHE, 4min., USA, Documentary
DYING FOR A LIVING, 13min., UK, Documentary
PERSONA, 2min., UK, Animation/Experimental
WHAT IF, 16min., Germany, Sci-Fi/Romance
FIREFLIES, 3min., UK, Drama
AUGENBLICKE – A BLINK OF AN EYE, 4min., Animation/Drama
RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN, 6min., Portugal, Drama
AXioMA, 15min., Italy, Drama
EAT JEREMY, 10min, UK, Comedy