Reviews

[Review] The Frontier

Despite an opening suggesting we’re in for a meticulous modern Western, The Frontier, directed by Matt Rabinowitz, embodies the mood, atmosphere and longing fou...

[TIFF Review] It Follows

A teenage girl, captured through a static wide shot, runs through a quaint Detroit suburb, her body dwarfed by its trees and middle-class homes. The sense that ...

[TIFF Review] La Sapienza

La Sapienza opens with a montage of Italy’s greatest architectural wonders -- cathedrals, domes, churches, and more shot in perfect lighting, propelled to grand...

[TIFF Review] Far From Men

Writer/director David Oelhoffen has a special film on his hands because it's powerful tale begs audience members to learn more about the subject. I'm not talkin...

[TIFF Review] The Riot Club

I’ll bet Laura Wade’s 2010 play Posh is something special to see on stage. A fictionalized take on Oxford University’s exclusive Bullingdon Club, it’s debaucher...

[TIFF Review] Adult Beginners

No one is ever going to say Ross Katz's Adult Beginners is original. The opening implosion for Jake's (Nick Kroll) multi-million dollar investment project was d...

[TIFF Review] The New Girlfriend

There is a vast spectrum between the most insensitive and compassionate cinematic portrayals of cross-dressing, and François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend aims some...

[TIFF Review] High Society

Deceptively gentle and delightful, High Society is a distinctively French drama of manors from Julie Lopes-Curval who knows this territory intimately. (Lopes-Cu...

[TIFF Review] Haemoo

Haemoo is an effective moral thriller that immediately mirrors the best work of its co-writer and producer Bong Joon-ho. What starts as slow and straight-forwar...

[TIFF Review] Learning to Drive

Adapted from a New Yorker essay and directed by Isabel Coixet (Elegy), Learning to Drive is often tender and delightful. Traversing territory covered in her pre...