Philomena arrived at the Toronto International Film Festival from its world premiere Venice waving a flag that read “crowd-pleasing,” and that can be a scary pr...
Prisoners might be the most shockingly dark studio release since Fight Club, a grim, unsettling, occasionally convoluted, but undeniably gripping thriller. The ...
As the end credits rolled during TIFF's first press and industry screening of Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave, a peculiar thing occurred: very few people moved...
You have never seen a main character quite like the eponymous heroine of Sarah Prefers to Run, a smart, unique, semi-satisfying Toronto International Film Festi...
Wasted Youth is a curious concoction, a disaffected-teens drama with tragic consequences that feels a bit too familiar, yet mostly succeeds thanks to its settin...
Editor's note: Below, one will find our review of Mark Salisbury’s Elysium: The Art of the Film (now available for purchase), along with exclusive concept a...
For a conflict that ended 150 years ago, the Civil War is red-hot. Lincoln was an Oscar-winning critical and commercial success, The Conspirator did well-en...
The title Paul Williams: Still Alive is either the meanest or the most life-affirming in recent documentary history, and after watching Stephen Kessler’s film a...
Amidst gala premieres of Wachowski-shepherded epics, bits of Oscar bait, and lavish literary adaptations, the Toronto International Film Festival also featu...
There’s a moment in Neil Jordan’s Byzantium when the strange family unit — mother Clara, daughter Eleanor, and new “boyfriend” Noel — watch what seems to be an ...
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.
