Reviews

[CIFF Review] 1:54

Antoine Olivier Pilon has a naturally defensive presence. Previously the breakout from Xavier Dolan’s caustic melodrama Mommy, his body language is less reactio...

[Review] The Ivory Game

If you went to a Regal Cinema during the month prelude to The Legend of Tarzan's release you will know the insane statistics depicting the sharp decline of livi...

[Review] Crosscurrent

In the early minutes of Chinese director Yang Chao’s sophomore feature, a fish is thrown into a bowl of water somewhere along an anonymous riverbank, darkened w...

[Review] Doctor Strange

With only a solitary passing mention of The Avengers, Doctor Strange is as stand-alone an adventure as we will get from Marvel -- prior to a mid-credits sequenc...

[Review] By Sidney Lumet

In the wake of Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's wonderful De Palma, a documentary concerning the life and career of director Brian De Palma, it's difficult to l...

[Review] Inferno

It's appropriate that the act of illusion plays such a central role in Inferno, for the film itself spends a lot of time masquerading as though it's something l...

[Review] Oasis: Supersonic

Oliver Stone. That’s the filmmaker who should have been asked to chronicle the career of Oasis, the hugely successful, ever-combustible, now-departed kings of B...

[LFF Review] The Autopsy of Jane Doe

André Øvredal’s last feature, the monster mockumentary Trollhunter, was thrillingly irreverent -- a cruelly funny movie that turned Norwegian mythology into a r...

[Review] The Unspoken

There are only so many iterations of the haunted house trope and yet they continue getting made. Sometimes we're lucky with James Wan's The Conjuring series del...

[LFF Review] David Lynch: The Art Life

Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint." That’s what he dubbed "the ...