Reviews

[TIFF Review] Burn Your Maps

Many films deal with the aftermath of a family death by becoming about how their characters live with the pain -- it changing them into different people. Some d...

[TIFF Review] The Fixer

Some people can't help themselves from striving to be the best whether that means winning a contest, getting a promotion, earning accolades, or proving you're t...

[TIFF Review] Werewolf

Writer/director Ashley McKenzie's feature debut Werewolf picks up right where her 2012 short When You Sleep left off. We're back in Canadian squalor on the pove...

[TIFF Review] Little Wing

The director of Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?, the hilarious 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Short Film, is back with her sophomore feature narrative Little...

[TIFF Review] Zoology

For a way in, maybe we can detect that Zoology writer-director Ivan I. Tverdovsky is a fan of sad-boy rock star Morrissey, because the first ten to fifteen minu...

[TIFF Review] Zacma: Blindness

The roles have been reversed for Julia Brystygier (Maria Mamona), the once powerful colonel in the USSR's Ministry. She interrogated countless enemies of the st...

[TIFF Review] The Death of Louis XIV

A fair question to ask: why The Sun King now? Perhaps American icons are always ripe for deconstruction as, after all, we have the world’s greatest (or rather d...

[TIFF Review] Pyromaniac

Going in with no expectations besides the recent news that the film had been shortlisted for Norway’s 2017 Oscar selection, director Erik Skjoldbjærg's Pyromani...

[TIFF Review] Nocturama

Here's an elevator pitch: Nocturama is Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably in a homegrown-terrorist garb that substitutes transcendental style for the form of ...

[Venice Review] The Age of Shadows

Eyebrows were raised when it was announced that South Korea will submit the as-yet-unreleased espionage thriller The Age of Shadows for Oscar consideration inst...