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[Review] Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case

Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case is a rare and intimate perspective on the artist and political figure. Directed by Andreas Johnsen, the documentary follows the globall...

[TIFF Review] Wild

There are at least two problems with the phrase “self-discovery”: a) the idea that discovering the self is a discrete act; b) the idea that the self is a discre...

[Review] The Frontier

Despite an opening suggesting we’re in for a meticulous modern Western, The Frontier, directed by Matt Rabinowitz, embodies the mood, atmosphere and longing fou...

[TIFF Review] It Follows

A teenage girl, captured through a static wide shot, runs through a quaint Detroit suburb, her body dwarfed by its trees and middle-class homes. The sense that ...

[TIFF Review] La Sapienza

La Sapienza opens with a montage of Italy’s greatest architectural wonders -- cathedrals, domes, churches, and more shot in perfect lighting, propelled to grand...

[TIFF Review] Far From Men

Writer/director David Oelhoffen has a special film on his hands because it's powerful tale begs audience members to learn more about the subject. I'm not talkin...

[TIFF Review] The Riot Club

I’ll bet Laura Wade’s 2010 play Posh is something special to see on stage. A fictionalized take on Oxford University’s exclusive Bullingdon Club, it’s debaucher...

[TIFF Review] Adult Beginners

No one is ever going to say Ross Katz's Adult Beginners is original. The opening implosion for Jake's (Nick Kroll) multi-million dollar investment project was d...

[TIFF Review] The New Girlfriend

There is a vast spectrum between the most insensitive and compassionate cinematic portrayals of cross-dressing, and François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend aims some...

[TIFF Review] High Society

Deceptively gentle and delightful, High Society is a distinctively French drama of manors from Julie Lopes-Curval who knows this territory intimately. (Lopes-Cu...