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[TIFF Review] The Secret Scripture

Writer-director Jim Sheridan has built a career off the plight of the Irish working class, with his best films (My Left Foot, In the Name of the Father, and The...

[TIFF Review] American Pastoral

If my limited experience with Philip Roth adaptations is any indication, his novels deal in emotion. There are existential crises concerning identity involved, ...

[TIFF Review] In the Blood

If forty's the new thirty, twenty-three can easily become the new thirteen. I think first-time director Rasmus Heisterberg would agree as the man behind screenp...

[TIFF Review] Jesús

Adolescent hijinks turn tragic on multiple fronts in Fernando Guzzoni's Jesús despite my not being sure there was going to be a solid point to the film until mi...

[TIFF Review] Trespass Against Us

It's clear within the first few minutes of first-time director Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us — as a muddy Subaru races after a bounding rabbit in the U.K. co...

[TIFF Review] Apprentice

Perhaps just another narrative about a millennial finding their calling, Apprentice zeroes in on Aiman (Fir Rahman), a man in his late '20s still living with hi...

[TIFF Review] A Monster Calls

When your author and illustrator both win Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for the same book, you can bet Hollywood will come knocking. Even though the production ...

[Venice Review] On the Milky Road

Serbian director Emir Kusturica, once a revered name on the arthouse European scene, is back in the helmer's chair with On the Milky Road. His return to fiction...

[TIFF Review] Free Fire

TIFF’s Colin Geddes was correct when introducing Ben Wheatley’s bottle episode of a film Free Fire with the words: “This will wake you up.” The gunfire alone ri...