I don't understand why you hire a writer who hates TIFF (and himself) to cover the fest every year. The contempt Semley shows for his subject and his readers is disgusting. These articles a waste of  precious newspaper space. Such a shame that Canada's largest and most prestigious paper continues to publish the work of such a loathsome jerk. He must have friends up high at The Globe. He certainly doesn't have any fans amongst your readers and we're getting sick of his nonsense. No one cares about Semley's private whining as much as the author and his journalistic navel-gazing poisons a paper with so many genuinely talented and insightful writers. I wish The Globe would hire people who actually like movies to review films and TIFF rather than continuing to employ this narcissist. I'm not alone in that opinion either. He is loathed outside of the Toronto bubble that confuses snappy self-obsession with intelligence.

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