Year: 2016

[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...

[TIFF Review] The Rehearsal

After a 17-year hiatus from directing feature length films, Alison Maclean returns to the screen with The Rehearsal, an adaptation of Eleanor Catton's acclaimed...

[TIFF Review] Clair Obscur

Life for a woman like Elmas (Ecem Uzun) in Turkey is a living nightmare. An eighteen-year old all but sold to a willing husband (Serkan Keskin's Koca) much olde...

[TIFF Review] Una

“It's a long story.” So says Una, a young woman with a going-nowhere office job and an emotionally devastated past, when asked about her relationship with Peter...

[TIFF Review] Catfight

With a title like Catfight and the only available image showing a bloodied and battered chokehold between Anne Heche and Sandra Oh, our expectations are forced ...

[TIFF Review] The Secret Scripture

Writer-director Jim Sheridan has built a career off the plight of the Irish working class, with his best films (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, and The...

[TIFF Review] American Pastoral

If my limited experience with Philip Roth adaptations is any indication, his novels deal in emotion. There are existential crises concerning identity involved, ...