Reviews

[TIFF Review] The Lords of Salem

Rob Zombie’s films always strike up controversy; not the kind that’s associated with politics like polemical documentaries, or what the genre he operates in, ho...

[TIFF Review] Passion

Five years after his last foray behind the camera, writer/director Brian De Palma looks to take some of the alternative devices used to film Redacted and combin...

[TIFF Review] The Company You Keep

In Robert Redford and Lem Dobbs' adaptation of Neil Gordon's novel The Company You Keep, the personal futures fought for by the militant Weather Underground dur...

[TIFF Review] Silver Linings Playbook

I know it's misguided, but my interest in David O. Russell films kind of ended after The Fighter. This was a guy who used to pave his own path with challenging ...

[Review] 10 Years

Awkward, fun, exciting, detestable, complicated, curious, interesting. I imagine the same words could be used to describe attending your own high school reunion...

[Review] Detropia

One of the gifts of directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady have shown through their documentary film career is their ability to fragment large social topics thr...

[Review] Keep the Lights On

Ira Sachs's Keep the Lights On is a film of deep, soothing humanity, exploring the truths and fictions of a long-term relationship with prodigious delicacy and ...

[TIFF Review] Aftershock

When opening credits begin with 'an Eli Roth film', you should know what to expect. While not quite his creatively—it's directed by Nicolás López—the torture po...

[TIFF Review] Byzantium

There’s a moment in Neil Jordan’s Byzantium when the strange family unit — mother Clara, daughter Eleanor, and new “boyfriend” Noel — watch what seems to be an ...

[TIFF Review] A Late Quartet

When the cellist of a world-renowned string quartet discovers early onset Parkinson's is taking away the dexterity needed to continue playing, the will of the e...