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[TIFF Review] Colossal

Whether the existence of time travel or an alien invasion, writer/director Nacho Vigalondo has proven king at dealing with large-scale concepts affecting small-...

[TIFF Review] Wakefield

Bryan Cranston’s Howard Wakefield seems to have a great life. He is a successful New York City lawyer, is married to aĀ lovingĀ wife, has two teenage girls, and o...

[TIFF Review] Paris Can Wait

With her last feature directorial credit being contributions to 1991'sĀ Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse,Ā Eleanor Coppola is perhaps better known as ...

[TIFF Review] Denial

There's often a genuine dramatic pull to films in the courtroom drama genre, yet they'veĀ suffered the last few decades because of the conventional tropes that c...

[TIFF Review] The Edge of Seventeen

Festival films about teenage angst are a dime a dozen, or maybe a nickel at this point. The genre is as constrained by its expected tropes as horror or superher...

[TIFF Review] Bleed for This

There's something about boxing movies that gets butts in seats regardless of so many being practically the same story. The formula almost always concerns some t...

[TIFF Review] Barry

During his college days in New York, Barack Obama used to be called ā€œBarry.ā€ At that point in time he hadn’t fully embraced his African American roots yet, but ...

[TIFF Review] Carrie Pilby

The synopsis for Carrie Pilby can sound atrocious on paper. Most films utilizing an eighteen-year old Harvard graduate do so as periphery color because the trop...