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[TIFF Review] Super

Our superheroes are changing. Last time we saw Superman, he was lamer than ever. Spider-Man is about to use a mulligan.  Now The Dark Knight gets bruises. The...

[TIFF Review] Everything Must Go

From one of the hottest scripts in Hollywood, Dan Rush's Everything Must Go, recently premiered here at TIFF. Based on Raymond Carver's short story Why Don't ...

[TIFF Review] Hereafter

After the abominably banal Oscar-bait that was last year's Invictus, I was ready for Clint Eastwood to attempt something new. Enter Hereafter, a supernatura...

[TIFF Review] The Conspirator

Robert Redford's The Conspirator tells a story I never knew about. It's also a story that makes for a tedious, only mildly interesting film. Shot like a Histo...

[Review] Resident Evil: Afterlife

Resident Evil: Afterlife is mediocre. It's surprisingly not as awful as some have been claiming, but it just lazily rolls along without excitement or an inc...

[TIFF Review] Never Let Me Go

Having recently finished Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, I was eager to see how writer Alex Garland (Sunshine, 28 Days Later) and director Mark Romanek (One Hour Photo) would adapt the sober sci-fi drama, Never Let Me Go....

[TIFF Review] Black Swan

Fusing cerebral elements found in The Fountain with the disturbing comment on addiction in Requiem for a Dream, while continuing the raw character drama from The Wrestler, Aronofsky has crafted an arresting culmination of his work with Black Swan....

[Review] I’m Still Here

Most won't know what I'm Still Here is going in. Or going out, for that matter. Is it a mockumentry? Or a deep examination of a performer in a downward spir...