>Click below for all SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s collected Toronto Film Festival reviews, in alphabetical order:
360
50/50
ALBERT NOBBS
BUTTER
DAMSELS IN DISTRESS
THE DEEP BLUE SEA
THE DESCENDANTS
DRIVE
HICK
THE IDES OF MARCH
THE INCIDENT
INTO THE ABYSS
MONEYBALL
THE MOTH DIARIES
PEACE, LOVE AND MISUNDERSTANDING
THE RAID
RAMPART
RESTLESS
SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN
SHAME
SLEEPLESS NIGHT
TAKE THIS WALTZ
TEN YEAR
TWIXT
W.E.
THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH
YOUR SISTER’S SISTER
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Mitch Salem
MITCH SALEM has worked on the business side of the entertainment industry for 20 years, as a senior business affairs executive and attorney for such companies as NBC, ABC, USA, Syfy, Bravo, and BermanBraun Productions, and before that, at the NY law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. During all that, he has more or less constantly been going to the movies and watching TV, and writing about both since the 1980s. His film reviews also currently appear on screened.com and the-burg.com. In addition, he is co-writer of an episode of the television series "Felicity."
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