Ankit Jhunjhunwala’s Top 10 Films of 2023
Following The Film Stage's collective top 50 films of 2023, as part of our year-end coverage, our contributors are sharing their personal top 10 lists.
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Ankit Jhunjhunwala
TIFF Review: Riddle of Fire is an Uneven But Skillfully Made Children’s Fantasy Adventure
Films with child protagonists present a unique tonal challenge. If overly saccharine whimsy can alienate an adult audience, having precocious kids delivering m...
TIFF Review: Achilles is an Engrossing, Courageous Act of Rebellion Against an Authoritarian Regime
From its opening moments, an Orwelleian gloom envelopes Iranian director Farhad Delaram’s debut feature Achilles. The prying forces of an authoritarian governm...
TIFF Review: Woodland is a Restrained, Visually Stunning PTSD Drama
Right from its opening moments, Austrian director Elisabeth Scharang’s Woodland is visually arresting, commanding one's attention. Which is fortunate as the fi...
TIFF Review: The Critic is an Improbable, Grim Farce Enlivened by Ian McKellen
Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve has ably demonstrated that a catty feud between theater critics and actresses is crackling subject matter for witty, adult...
TIFF Review: They Shot The Piano Player is a Well-Researched, Unremarkable Animated Documentary
Using animation as the medium for feature-length documentaries is a fairly novel development, Waltz with Bashir and Flee being notable examples of internationa...
Ankit Jhunjhunwala
Ankit is a writer and film critic based in North America and has written about films for over a decade, including coverage at Cannes, Berlin, New York, and Toronto film festivals.