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[TIFF Review] Mekko

Seeking to bridge the divide between contemporary filmmaking and Native American spiritualism, writer/director Sterlin Harjo's Mekko provides a tale of redempti...

[Venice Review] Afternoon

It’s always been easier to review Tsai Ming-liang’s films than to make sense of them. Characterized by an often impenetrable language of silence and immobility,...

[Venice Review] Remember

A partial return to form for director Atom Egoyan comes in this Christopher Plummer-starring geriatric revenge thriller – Nazi hunting for the Best Exotic Marig...

[TIFF Review] The Other Side

Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini has long held his ever-fascinated gaze on America's unwanted, isolated or forgotten people. Last year, he finalized his Texa...

[TIFF Review] Victoria

If director/co-writer Sebastian Schipper wanted, he could have easily turned Victoria into a first-person adventure through the streets of Berlin. It practicall...

[Venice Review] Blood of My Blood

The town of Bobbio, in central Italy, often recurs in Marco Bellocchio’s history, in the same way that the 17th-century episode of the ‘nun of Monza’ (whose aff...

[TIFF Review] Spear

Interpretative dance is not something to be lightly taken. You either have the propensity to let it wash over you in its loose gyrations of emotional expression...

[TIFF Review] Ninth Floor

The 1969 Sir George Williams Affair seems like something we should all know about. It occurred only a year after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and prov...

[Venice Review] De Palma

Earlier this year, Kent Jones’ Hitchcock /Truffaut -- a documentary on the famous interview sessions between the two directors -- boasted perhaps the most chaot...

[Review] Legend

Alexander Woollcott once remarked, "All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening." Art is wonderful because it allows us to indu...