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FOLLOWING the breakout success of her debut feature I Like Movies (2022), Chandler Levack returns to the Toronto In- ternational Film Festival with her highly anticipated second film, Mile End Kicks. Loosely inspired by her own experiences as a young female music critic, this romantic comedy is set FILM / ROM-COM Love and other adventures in Jewish Montreal
in Montreal’s Mile End neighbourhood at the height of the vibrant indie music scene in 2011. Though now primarily associated with tattooed hipsters, it was once a home for working-class Jewish immigrants, and music has always been a part of its cre-
MILE END KICKS Directed by Chandler Levack Premiering on September 4
ative identity, from klezmer to Grimes. Produced by the team behind Canadian indie darling BlackBerry , Mile End Kicks will embrace the messiness and fun of love triangles, dating mu- sicians, and 20-something angst. Sophia Hershfield
FILM / DRAMA The trial to end all trials
AFTER GETTING its world release at the Toronto International Film Festival in Sep- tember, this courtroom drama will go into wide release later in the fall. From the writer of Zodiac and The People vs. O.J.
TELEVISION / ROM-COM Everybody wants this
Simpson , Nuremberg follows chief prosecu- tor Robert H. Jackson (Russell Crowe) and a Jewish-American inves- tigator (Rami Malek) as
NUREMBERG Directed by James Vanderbilt In theatres November 7
NAVIGATING an interfaith relationship is not easy, especially when dealing with fraught families, concerned congregants, and parasocial podcast fans. In this rom-com series that confronts the tension between Jewish commu- nity and the secular dating world —soon returning for a second season — Kristen Bell plays Joanne, an agnostic sex and relationship podcaster who falls for young, quirky Rabbi Noah (Adam Brody). Some Jewish feminists have tak-
they assemble the case against Nazi lead- ership. With survivor voices and camp footage presented as evidence, the film captures a turning point in legal history: one in which the world was forced to find language for crimes it had never dared to name. Alex Rose
en issue with the show’s portrayal of its Jewish women, and there’s been some controversy about the series’ use of the word shiksa to describe Joanne. Still, Bell and Brody’s unde- niable chemistry has landed the show a whopping 95 per- cent on Rotten Tomatoes, and a second season for Adam Brody’s Hot Rabbi. Sophia Hershfield
NOBODY WANTS THIS
Created by Erin Foster On Netflix October 23
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