Reviews

[Review] A Single Shot

It’s a shame most people need an incident that risks taking their life to finally acknowledge they have one left to live. For John Moon (Sam Rockwell), this mom...

[TIFF Review] Stray Dogs

A woman sits at the edge of a bed, brushing her hair while a young boy and girl are positioned to her side, sleeping soundly. The camera, stationary, can captur...

[TIFF Review] People In Places

Opening with a hilarious (and extremely awkward) first date at an empty restaurant, Juan Cavestany’s People In Places is unapologetically strange and often very...

[Review] Enough Said

There is a (debatable?) rule, in the field of film assessment, which states that a critic should be wary of reaching beyond the text or the frame of a given fil...

[TIFF Review] Sex, Drugs & Taxation

Imagine for a moment if the heroes of Klown, Frank and Casper, landed in the 60's, at the height of the sexual revolution, and started taking over small Danish ...

[Review] After Tiller

Although documentaries often present real-life people working in risk-filled areas, the results can be quite banal. Half of reality television is filled with po...

[TIFF Review] Ladder to Damascus

A non-violent, secular movement began in Syria in early 2011 led by young protestors calling for democratic freedoms and the fall of president Bashar al-Assad’s...

[TIFF Review] Beyond the Edge

The narrative-driven documentary Beyond the Edge, arriving on the 60th anniversary of the first successful Everest summit by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norg...

[TIFF Review] Starred Up

In an opening sequence, as he's arriving to adult prison, Eric (Jack O’Connell) is given a thorough inspection in a moment that clues us in to the kind of movie...

[TIFF Review] Bad Words

Perhaps Jason Bateman is tired of playing the likeable voice of reason amongst more idiotic counterparts, an character that his iconic turn as Michael Bluth on ...