TIFF Review: Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils is Potentially Horrible, Never Boring
You have to hand it to Atom Egoyan: no matter how many flops he’s accrued, he won’t chase trends. While his new film Seven Veils positions itself in the high-d...
Ethan Vestby
TIFF Review: The Holdovers is a Heavily Nostalgic, Likable Return for Alexander Payne
In the midst of a festival setting, catching up with all the best of world cinema and the contemporary avant-garde, you basically hope––sometimes even luckily ...
TIFF Review: Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt is a Stale Western
I remember hearing Viggo Mortensen on an episode of Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin where he came off as the rare combination of pretentious but likable. A ...
TIFF Review: Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron is a Wistful Tale of Spectacular Animation
I was thinking about my motherI was thinking about what’s mineI was living my life like a HollywoodBut I was dying, dying on the vine
–– John Cale
It was...
Retribution Review: Liam Neeson Settles Into His Age in Nimrod Antal Thriller
Wholly possible that it was a script kicking around since the mid-2000s pitched as “Speed meets Phone Booth” with a few hence-added references to “the dark web...
Birth/Rebirth Review: Effective Horror Refreshingly Stripped of Emotion
It was only last week I was reviewing a new take on the Dracula myth, The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Deeper into both the dog days of August and the realms of...
The Last Voyage of the Demeter Review: Dracula’s Nautical Journey Lacks Tension
Reflecting on the making of his debut feature Shivers, David Cronenberg once remarked that he figured his vision for an ultra-modern horror film exploring curr...
Kokomo City Review: Black Trans Sex Workers Get the Spotlight in Poppy, Personal Documentary
Some films seem heavy from the outset. Taking on a number of Black transgender sex workers as its subject while splitting time between New York and Georgia––cu...
Final Cut Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Zombie Comedy Lacks Blood and Brains
If one must ascribe a theme to the Michel Hazanavicius project, it might be documenting the progression of film history: The Artist the silent era, Redoubtable...
The Passengers of the Night Review: Charlotte Gainsbourg Navigates the Trials of Life in Emotionally Mature Drama
Perhaps it’s presumptuous to say, but I sensed during The Passengers of the Night that I was watching another film in the line of The Fabelmans or (God forbid)...
