Year: 2016

[TIFF Review] Headshot

The Raid star Iko Uwais deserves to silat his way through a million hapless evil men, but here’s hoping that, going forward, he picks better cinematic vehicles ...

[TIFF Review] The Assignment

In his heyday, Walter Hill made films of a thirty-year-or-so dissonance, everything he made in the '80s owing itself to the '50s, be it Robert Aldrich-Burt Lanc...

[TIFF Review] I Called Him Morgan

Jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan was known for creatively challenging the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis on stage with his style and intensity, a youthful pe...

[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...