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 ...
Christopher Schobert
TIFF Review: Barry Keoghan Can’t Save the Thoroughly Unpleasant Bring Them Down
Christopher Andrews’ Bring Them Down is an endurance test with no payoff. Opening with a jarring car crash on a windy road in rural Ireland, the film soon adds...
TIFF Review: Ron Howard’s Eden Is an Ambitious Disappointment
On paper, there are few filmmakers who seem less-suited to the rigors of a project like Eden than Ron Howard. This is the grim story, after all, of real-life i...
TIFF Review: On Swift Horses Is an Endearing Melodrama With an Alluring Ensemble
It's been some time since we've had such a ridiculously attractive lineup of buzzworthy young actors as the quartet starring in Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horse...
TIFF Review: Pamela Anderson Shines in Gia Coppola’s Moving The Last Showgirl
“I’m older––I’m not old,” says Shelley, the longest-term performer in a past-its-prime Las Vegas revue. She is played by Pamela Anderson, the international ico...
Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Trans Cinema, Moving Memoirs, A Major Year in Sci-Fi & More
Our latest review of new and recent books about (or connected to) cinema includes an extraordinary look at transness in film; memoirs from Griffin Dunne, Jon C...
Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: A History of Mad Max, Barbie on Tour, Michael Mann, Baseball on the Big Screen & More
Our latest look at new and recent books about (or connected to) cinema must start with a mention of Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, H...
Elaine May Finally Gets the Biography She Deserves
Before now there has never been a full-length biography of Elaine May, the icon known for being one-half of Nichols and May and the director of A New Leaf, The...
Recommended New Books on Filmmaking: Scarface, Quentin Tarantino, Dune: Exposures, Candy Darling & More
Our latest look at new and recent books about (or connected to) cinema includes looks at a couple beloved classics (Scarface and The Blues Brothers), a unique ...
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg Review: Scarlett Johansson Gives Voice to Redemption Story
You can’t always get what you want, unless you are a Rolling Stones fan hungering for documentary deep-dives into the band’s storied history. Indeed, it is spe...
Christopher Schobert
Christopher Schobert is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic who has written for numerous outlets worldwide and covered film festivals in Toronto, New York, and London. Currently, he writes reviews and features for The Film Stage, writes a monthly cinema column for Buffalo Spree magazine, and discusses film as a regular guest on the Shredd and Ragan radio show on Buffalo’s 97 Rock.