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[TIFF Review] Girl Model

Interested in the end results of globalization, David Redmond and Ashley Sabin previously chronicled the end product of Mardi Gras party beads in Mardi Gras: ...

[TIFF Review] Alois Nebel

Alois Nebel, the first feature film of director Tomáš Luňák, is a moody black-and-white animated film that diverts from the conventional rules of film form ...

[TIFF Review] Trespass

It would be ignorant to deny certain preconceived notions going into a Joel Schumacher home invasion movie starring Nicolas Cage. I was dumbfounded when it ...

[Review] Straw Dogs

Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs is a tough film to watch. Not in terms of onscreen violence, but in evaluating the film as a whole. Sam Peckinpah's original film is ...

[TIFF Review] Wuthering Heights

Aside from being creepily old, if the Brontë sisters were still alive today, they would be delighted. After their work has been adapted a dozen times over, ...

[TIFF Review] Shame

Three years after their first collaboration—and the director’s debut film—Steve McQueen and star Michael Fassbender return with the viscerally intense Shame...

[Review] Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star

The good news about Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star is that it’s not half bad! It’s not half good either, and perhaps I’m feeling a sense of good willing to...

[TIFF Review] Kill List

Here’s a funny tale. In 1954, there was a struggling British painter called John Bratby who had monumentally failed to make a name for himself in the art co...

[TIFF Review] You’re Next

No matter how nice it starts, when a film is part of the Midnight Madness sidebar at TIFF, something twisted is almost guaranteed to occur. After premiering...

[TIFF Review] Alps

There are many films that tie things up in a satisfying bow, resolving all arcs and delivering a story that is meant to engage. Then there are more abstract...