Reviews

[TIFF Review] Souvenir

It starts with bubbles. So many bubbles rising slowly in liquid as the opening credits in script font flash onscreen. And when the camera finally pans out to se...

[TIFF Review] The Magnificent Seven

Rather than the 1960 version or the film it was based on, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven brought deja vu of the unexpecte...

[TIFF Review] We Are Never Alone

Fans of Quentin Dupieux should rejoice because I haven't seen a film this absurdly hilarious since Wrong. Petr Václav's We Are Never Alone is definitely bleaker...

[Venice Review] Austerlitz

Having experimented with feature-length fiction films, shorts, and archival-footage documentaries in the course of his career, Sergei Loznitsa’s output since hi...

[Review] Sully

You know the inciting incident because it is not quite like any in recorded human history, and you could stare at the foreboding, nigh-apocalyptic poster to no ...

[Review] Demon

Nothing's allowed to derail the guests of a Polish wedding from having fun, not even the groom's epileptic seizure. You just pick him up and cart him out. Send ...

[Venice Review] Planetarium

It'd be one thing, a simpler thing, if Rebecca Zlotowski's Planetarium was a middle-of-the-road effort that's over and done with in less than two hours. Alas, i...

[Venice Review] Jackie

Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín certainly isn’t beating around the bush with his latest film, Jackie, a strange, refreshingly cynical, and unexpectedly cerebral...

[Venice Review] The Bad Batch

Ana Lily Amirpour’s second feature shoots for Harmony Korine meets Mad Max and would have nearly almost hit the mark were it not for the gratingly aloof attitud...