Reviews

[TIFF Review] Trigger

Bruce McDonald is as renegade a filmmaker you’ll find these days, with an ever-shifting style. The common link between his works is an impulse to tell narra...
article placeholder

[TIFF Review] Small Town Murder Songs

Small Town Murder Songs is the promising and well crafted feature from emerging filmmaker Ed Gas-Donnelly, filmed with strong visuals of on an Ontario an ho...

[TIFF Review] Chico & Rita

As a student in Toronto and a lover of animated films, I attended a TIFF screening of Chico & Rita. The collaboration of Fernando Trueba, Oscar- winning...

[TIFF Review] The Illusionist

Sylvain Chomet (Triplets of Bellville) executed the animation in The Illusionist so elegantly and brilliantly. I stood in line for an hour and thirty mi...

[Review] Howl

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…" The first time I heard the start of Allen Ginsberg's iconic beat...

[TIFF Review] The King’s Speech

With only one press screening scheduled opposite the highly-buzzed Black Swan, I didn't think I was going to get the chance to see Tom Hooper's The King's S...