If forty's the new thirty, twenty-three can easily become the new thirteen. I think first-time director Rasmus Heisterberg would agree as the man behind screenp...
Adolescent hijinks turn tragic on multiple fronts in Fernando Guzzoni's Jesús despite my not being sure there was going to be a solid point to the film until mi...
It's clear within the first few minutes of first-time director Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us — as a muddy Subaru races after a bounding rabbit in the U.K. co...
Perhaps just another narrative about a millennial finding their calling, Apprentice zeroes in on Aiman (Fir Rahman), a man in his late '20s still living with hi...
When your author and illustrator both win Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for the same book, you can bet Hollywood will come knocking. Even though the production ...
Having Christian Bale and Oscar Isaac as the leads of any film would be enough to warrant a ticket purchase, but even moreso when one of them isn't in any s...
Serbian director Emir Kusturica, once a revered name on the arthouse European scene, is back in the helmer's chair with On the Milky Road. His return to fiction...
TIFF’s Colin Geddes was correct when introducing Ben Wheatley’s bottle episode of a film Free Fire with the words: “This will wake you up.” The gunfire alone ri...
Many films deal with the aftermath of a family death by becoming about how their characters live with the pain -- it changing them into different people. Some d...
Some people can't help themselves from striving to be the best whether that means winning a contest, getting a promotion, earning accolades, or proving you're t...
