By Anne Brodie - We have Toronto International Film Festival - TIFF to you! - capsule reviews to help make your viewing choices in person or on https://digital.tiff.net/ Danis Goulet's premieres her extraordinary drama Night Raiders at TIFF, a disturbing story paralleling the traumas of the …
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Caoilinn Springall and George Clooney in The Midnight Sky By Anne Brodie Looks like Nomadland’s Frances McDormand has fierce competition for all the Best Actress awards in Viola Davis. Davis is unrecognizable as 20’s blues icon Ma Rainey, in George C. Wolfe’s film adaptation of August …
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Viola Davis as the Queen of the Blues in Netflix’ Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Viola Davis as Ma Rainey Viola Davis’s astonishing transformation into 20’s blues singer Ma Rainey is an act of pure thespian skill that may well earn Davis a second Oscar. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom directed by George C. Wolfe and based on August Wilson’s long running Broadway hit stars Davis and …
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