Reviews

[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 ...

[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 ...