Reviews

[TIFF Review] Gravity

Back in the '90s, at the advent of IMAX technology, certain amusement parks would have a screen with some "experience" putting you "into the action." Enter the ...

[Venice Review] Sacro GRA

Set around the edges of the Grande Raccordo Annulare (the "GRA" of the film's title), Italy's most extensive urban highway, documentarian Gianfranco Rosi observ...

[TIFF Review] 1982

Tommy Oliver’s tender, personal 1982 is a strong debut feature. Starring Hill Harper as Tim Brown, a hardworking family man, he's mostly hard at work launching ...

[TIFF Review] REAL

Billowing curtains, industrial decay, skylines shot in the bright of day that still manage to be ominous -- all the visual trademarks of celebrated genre direct...

[TIFF Review] Parkland

We all know the story of President John F. Kennedy's assassination: it's an event that has been ingrained into our culture and, having spawned a myriad of consp...

[TIFF Review] Rush

Ron Howard likes to make movies in which every shot, gesture and cut is designed to elicit a specific response from the viewer; there is no room for ambiguity, ...

[TIFF Review] Canopy

It's September 9th, 1942 and the Japanese have already invaded Singapore three years before the first atomic bomb will shake them with devastating force and ult...

[TIFF Review] October November

The image of a drowning fish—gasping and jumping atop a rock too far from salvation—is what has stuck with me most after watching writer/director Götz Spielmann...

[TIFF Review] Mystery Road

Originally conjured up by writer/director Ivan Sen in 2006, Mystery Road’s look at a “turncoat” cop working within a largely racist, white profession always had...