Reviews

[TIFF Review] Windfall

Laura Isreal’s Windfall is a compelling look at the darkside of Wind Power. Opening with several beautiful compositions the film toggles between a formalism...

[NYFF Review] Carlos

Olivier Assayas’ 5 and a half hour epic Carlos is a cold, calculated and brutal opening to a film that, in many ways, is just that....

[Review] Never Let Me Go

Music video director extraordinaire Mark Romanek's previous film, One Hour Photo, is a haunting and unnerving experience. His long-awaited followup is an adap...

[Review] Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

It's been 23 years since we last saw Gordon Gekko, the amoral stockbroker titan, played by Michael Douglas, in Oliver Stone's 1987 Wall Street. Now, we me...

[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...
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[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...