Reviews

[TIFF Review] Anna Karenina

When TIFF director and CEO Piers Handling introduced the newest adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina by saying director Joe Wright appropriately played up ...

[TIFF Review] Seven Psychopaths

It takes a deranged mind to be this fascinated with psychopaths, let alone seven of them. Colin Farrell’s Marty gets to quite literally take his work home with ...

[TIFF Review] End of Watch

With studios always striving to cut costs, the handheld approach has been a crutch to keep budgets low and give audiences a reason for it. While it's been execu...

[Review] The Good Doctor

As I watched director Lance Daly’s medical thriller The Good Doctor, I kept thinking about a particular bit from the podcast Doug Loves Movies. In it, comedian ...

[TIFF Review] Inch’Allah

It's truly amazing to watch how guilt, regret, and sorrow can change the very make-up of your character. It may only be for a brief while, but that moment can i...

[TIFF Review] When I Saw You

Leave it to writer/director Annemarie Jacir to make an American more or less indoctrinated to side with the Israelis in the war for the Holy Land see her people...

[Review] [REC] 3: Genesis

When zombies first shuffled onto the screen in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, it was left unclear just how the dead came to rise again. Many theories...

[TIFF Review] Shores of Hope

It's East Berlin, 1984—an entire nation under the Stasi's watchful eye. Freedom is near impossible without risk of arrest or bullet courtesy of a botched escape...