Month: September 2016

[TIFF Review] City of Tiny Lights

Small-time private detective Tommy Akhtar (Riz Ahmed) has all the swagger of a hard-boiled snoop: leather jacket on his shoulders and cigarette in his mouth, le...

[TIFF Review] Tramps

The romantic comedy formula is one that can't help but become redundant in premise. How many different scenarios are there for two people to converge? Even so, ...

[TIFF Review] Lion

Garth Davis' directorial debut Lion is based on a true story. The film makes sure to tell us that at the very beginning of the movie -- just to remind us that w...

[TIFF Review] Katie Says Goodbye

Considering how fashionable a "spiritual sequel" is in Hollywood these days, it's a pity that those behind Katie Says Goodbye can't legally flaunt it as one of ...

[TIFF Review] Buster’s Mal Heart

After making an impression in films from Paul Thomas Anderson, David Lowery, and Spike Lee, thanks to his new exposure as television's most intelligent anti-soc...

[TIFF Review] Snowden

Remakes repackaging foreign films for American audiences are justifiable if done correctly. I’d hope our movie-going public would willingly read subtitles and e...

[TIFF Review] Daguerrotype

Kiyoshi Kurosawa has ways of making it look easy, even unimpressive. To my knowledge, he has never made a film that’s less than a pleasure to simply observe, ri...