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[TIFF Review] Nocturama

Here's an elevator pitch: Nocturama is Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably in a homegrown-terrorist garb that substitutes transcendental style for the form of ...

[Venice Review] The Age of Shadows

Eyebrows were raised when it was announced that South Korea will submit the as-yet-unreleased espionage thriller The Age of Shadows for Oscar consideration inst...

[TIFF Review] Souvenir

It starts with bubbles. So many bubbles rising slowly in liquid as the opening credits in script font flash onscreen. And when the camera finally pans out to se...

[TIFF Review] The Magnificent Seven

Rather than the 1960 version or the film it was based on, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven brought deja vu of the unexpecte...

[TIFF Review] We Are Never Alone

Fans of Quentin Dupieux should rejoice because I haven't seen a film this absurdly hilarious since Wrong. Petr Václav's We Are Never Alone is definitely bleaker...

[Venice Review] Austerlitz

Having experimented with feature-length fiction films, shorts, and archival-footage documentaries in the course of his career, Sergei Loznitsa’s output since hi...