Reviews

[TIFF Review] Indivisible

It starts off so magically with conjoined twins Dasy (Angela Fontana) and Viola (Marianna Fontana) bringing hope and the word of God to the unfortunate souls la...

[TIFF Review] Forever Pure

Just when you think it can't get worse—that the vocal, racist minority spewing bile will be extinguished in a show of tide-turning empathy—everything is literal...

[TIFF Review] In Between

It's Tel Aviv in 2016 and the parties are wild. Drinking, dancing, snorting, kissing — it's time for twenty-year olds to have fun and be alive. But whereas in A...

[Review] The Dressmaker

Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel The Dressmaker is described as “Gothic,” but its new film adaptation more often comes across as a picaresque with too much killjoy dram...

[TIFF Review] Goldstone

Another missing girl has Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) on the move while the world continues to turn a blind eye. This time it isn't an aboriginal, though...

[TIFF Review] Kati Kati

Most of cinema's best films are those that do rather than explain. These works are created by artists wielding airtight concepts insofar as attaining their goal...

[TIFF Review] Raw

18-year-old Justine (Garance Marillier) is a meek vegetarian, which motivates her decision to enroll as a freshman at the same prestigious veterinary school as ...

[TIFF Review] Lady Macbeth

Before William Oldroyd's first foray on the silver screen with Lady Macbeth, he was an experienced theater director, which clearly has aided his adaptation of N...

[TIFF Review] Weirdos

Weirdos, the latest film from the quintessentially Canadian auteur Bruce McDonald, is on its face just another road trip comedy with the spirit of Andy Warhol, ...

[TIFF Review] Ta’ang

A text against a black screen informs us of the Ta’ang ethnicity belonging to Myanmar, a nation engulfed in an endless civil war, which happens to be driving it...