Reviews

[TIFF Review] We Monsters

We Monsters doesn’t dally but dives straight in -- the action and crux of the story is virtually immediate. Hip dad Paul (Mehdi Nebbou) and his moody teen Sarah...

[TIFF Review] Black

The buzz on Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's film Black is that it's a contemporary take on a Shakespearean classic. Saying as much is an apt description and Ro...

[TIFF Review] A Heavy Heart

A Heavy Heart is a film about the almosts, or to be more precise, the almost almosts. It takes place somewhere in Germany in a town/city full of bull headed men...

[TIFF Review] Cemetery of Splendour

If it is by now redundant to say that Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (who understands pronunciation troubles and insists people call him “Joe”) is tru...

[TIFF Review] Hitchcock/Truffaut

We’ve heard it many times before: back in the '50s and '60s, Alfred Hitchcock was considered just a vulgar entertainer, making box-office hits for the unwashed ...

[Review] Breathe

In many ways, a friendship is more difficult to navigate or justify than a romantic relationship. Romance is a singular event, confined to a single person at a ...

[TIFF Review] Mekko

Seeking to bridge the divide between contemporary filmmaking and Native American spiritualism, writer/director Sterlin Harjo's Mekko provides a tale of redempti...

[Venice Review] Afternoon

It’s always been easier to review Tsai Ming-liang’s films than to make sense of them. Characterized by an often impenetrable language of silence and immobility,...

[Venice Review] Remember

A partial return to form for director Atom Egoyan comes in this Christopher Plummer-starring geriatric revenge thriller – Nazi hunting for the Best Exotic Marig...