Reviews

[TIFF Review] Horse Money

Often, when defining the auteur, one of the first things we go to is the consistency of location -- that through a certain booming metropolis, quaint small town...

[Venice Review] Good Kill

Andrew Niccol made a name for himself with a particular brand of topical filmmaking (Gattaca, The Truman Show, S1mone, Lord of War, In Time) keen on capturing a...

[Review] The Identical

Continuing the evolution of faith-based cinema, The Identical is a film that will certainly appeal to its core audience succeeding as an engaging, energetic dra...

[TIFF Review] Corbo

There's ease to idolizing the IRA for rising against their British oppressors because the number of Irish descendants retaining a piece of nationalism at heart ...

[Venice Review] Pasolini

"Cinema is a never-ending long take," Pier Paolo Pasolini once said. "And death is a form of instant editing of a whole life, picking and arranging our most sig...

[Venice Review] Cymbeline

It was 2000 when Michael Almereyda debuted his Hamlet adaptation, with a young Ethan Hawke as the troubled prince and a steely, haughty Manhattan skyscraper in ...

[Review] The Boxtrolls

Although their features thus far come from different minds (both on the page and when it comes to the execution), the Oregon-based stop-motion studio Laika clea...

[Venice Review] The Humbling

Shot over 20 days, largely in director Barry Levinson's own Connecticut house, The Humbling is an adaptation of Philip Roth's novel looking at the enigmatic fig...

[Review] The Calling

A slow burner that perhaps is more deserving of the theatrical experience than VOD, The Calling is a handsomely lensed thriller set towards the end of winter in...