Reviews

[TIFF Review] Phantom Boy

French directors Alain Gagnol (who also wrote) and Jean-Loup Felicioli have another winner on their hands with Phantom Boy. The much-anticipated follow-up to th...

[TIFF Review] I Saw the Light

The opening to Marc Abraham's I Saw the Light holds a lot of intrigue. Based on Colin Escott's biography about hillbilly legend Hank Williams, the start goes fr...

[TIFF Review] The Reflektor Tapes

A list of things The Reflektor Tapes comes close to being but doesn’t quite end up as: a concert film stitching together Arcade Fire's work on a worldwide tour ...

[TIFF Review] Yakuza Apocalypse

Something is off within the opening minutes of our Yakuza tale as heavy doses of computer-generated bloodshed elevate the proceedings to, in perhaps an understa...

[TIFF Review] Girls Lost

Writer/director Alexandra-Therese Keining's adaptation of Jessica Schiefuer's 2011 August Prize-winning (Sweden) young adult novel Pojkarna (translated as The B...

[TIFF Review] Len and Company

Hearing how deeply a film touched its cast lends a certain air that might not normally be there. Len and Company has it as Juno Temple and star Rhys Ifans both ...

[TIFF Review] Men & Chicken

While I'm not familiar with Anders Thomas Jensen's solo work, I am with the films he has collaborated on opposite Susanne Bier. So to see images of his latest M...

[TIFF Review] Mia Madre

The opening credits of Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre, with portentous music set against a black background, set off a few warning bells. Has the weight of the human...

[TIFF Review] Ville-Marie

It may only be his second feature-length fictional narrative, but writer/director Guy Édoin's Ville-Marie is something special. The title is named after the Mon...

[TIFF Review] A Patch of Fog

After Michael Lennox's success with the Oscar-nominated short Boogaloo and Graham, it was only a matter of time before he'd delve back into the feature game wit...