The Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) is now on with several reasons to pay attention. It's showing all the big winners from the Cannes Festival as well as the Oscar submissions from 10 countries, from Brazil to Iceland to Morocco and including ours, from here in Canada.

There are new films by several notable directors, from Christian Petzold to Chandler Levack to Jim Jarmusch to Noah Baumbach to the Dardenne Brothers and so on.

And one with one of the two Oscar buzzy actors that I mentioned above. I review her work below as well as the other one and a few VIFF titles.

After the Hunt: 3 stars

The Smashing Machine: 3 ½

The Art of Adventure: 4

In the Room: 3 ½

Akashi: 4

Treasure of the Rice Terraces: 4

Clan of the Painted Lady: 2 ½

AFTER THE HUNT : Julia Roberts could w

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