Venice Review: Jerry Lewis’ The Day the Clown Cried Emerges in From Darkness to Light
“What if woody Allen had brain injury,” remarks the comic Adam Friedland in his rather direct Letterboxd review of Jerry Lewis’ The Ladies...
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Venice Review: Kevin Costner Is Going Strong With Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 2
How blessed are we to have a whole six hours of Kevin Costner’s mythopoetic Horizon already make their way to (some) audiences, especially ...
TIFF Review: Joseph Kahn’s Ick is a Riotous, Satirical Take on the Creature Feature
The world is ending and nobody cares in Ick, Joseph Kahn’s latest genre offering after 2017’s Bodied and 2011’s Detention. Despite only mak...
TIFF Review: David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers is a Frustratingly Contrived Affair
David Gordon Green’s career is one of the most unpredictable in Hollywood. Since his masterful and celebrated debut George Washington, he's...
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TIFF Review: David Gordon Green’s Nutcrackers is a Frustratingly Contrived Affair
David Gordon Green’s career is one of the most unpredictable in Hollywood. Since his masterful and celebrated debut George Washington, he's not been shy about ...
TIFF Review: Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night Has One Yearning for Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60
“Can satire save the Republic?”— May 2017 cover story of The Atlantic featuring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump
“Mad TV would have done a Barron Trump School ...
TIFF Review: Tim Robinson Masters Cringe In the Hysterically Funny Friendship
The level of enjoyment audience members will have with Andrew DeYoung’s Friendship is tied directly to their tolerance for the humor of Tim Robinson. The star ...
TIFF Review: The Quiet Ones Orchestrates a Thrilling Heist
When Kasper (Gustav Dyekjær Giese) learns his brother-in-law wants him to speak with a Moroccan friend, he knows what that conversation will entail. It probabl...
TIFF Review: Souleymane’s Story Tells a Dardenne-Esque Political Fable with a Thriller’s Urgency
Souleymane's Story delivers a political fable with all the grit and urgency of a thriller. It follows a Guinean food-delivery driver (Abou Sangare, brilliant i...
TIFF Review: Flow Suggests Classic Disney By Way of Emmanuel Lubezki
Being a pet owner, depending on your personality, comes with a fair level of anxiety. For example: after leaving my apartment to go see the film I’m writing ab...
First Trailer for Greg Jardin’s Sundance Hit It’s What’s Inside
One of the Sundance breakouts this year was Greg Jardin's directorial debut It's What's Inside. Starring Brittany O'Grady, James Morosini, Gavin Leatherwood, N...
Amnesiascope Presents a Rarely Screened Maggie Cheung Film on Tuesday, September 17
When I started my blindfold series Amnesiascope I knew there'd come time to show a Maggie Cheung film. Probably this doesn't require much explanation: movie st...
TIFF Review: Alicia Vikander Steals the Show in the Sci-Fi Drama The Assessment
The “old world” is a wasteland. People still live there, but not for very long. Those in the “new world” live hundreds of years thanks to a drug that slows agi...
TIFF Review: Conclave is an Engaging Political Thriller Undone by Ridiculous Third Act Twists
The twisty political thriller Conclave wastes little time getting right into it: the Pope is dead, and after a three-week time jump, the world’s most powerful ...