Reviews

[TIFF Review] Twice Born

Adapted from the 2008 novel by Margaret Mazzantini of the same name, Twice Born (Venuto al mondo) isn't quite what it seems. When an aged Italian woman named Ge...

[TIFF Review] Imagine

It may be weird to think, but there's no better medium than film to transport an audience into the world of the blind. A character in Andrzej Jakimowski's Imagi...

[TIFF Review] The Place Beyond the Pines

Retaining the gritty authenticity of his lyrically heartbreaking Blue Valentine, Derek Cianfrance's new insanely ambitious look into the nature versus nurture e...

[TIFF Review] Gangs of Wasseypur

How fitting, in a year that has seen a restored version of Sergio Leone’s embattled, multigenerational gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America, that a new, Le...

[TIFF Review] Frances Ha

A Noah Baumbach film through and through, I can't help but praise lead actress and co-writer Greta Gerwig's influence in making Frances Ha the quirky, subtly hi...

[Review] Bachelorette

Almost before the light beings to flicker from the projector, Kirsten Dunst's Regan utters "Things have been going really well." In great comedic fashion, not o...

[TIFF Review] What Richard Did

Jealousy could be the most destructive force in youth culture. With hormones raging to drive a need for companionship to help prevail through high school and re...

[TIFF Review] Something in the Air

Sex, drugs, art, and revolution -- such was the life of a young European in 1971. Or at least it was the life of a young director at 17 trying to reconcile the ...