Posterized November 2017: ‘Call Me by Your Name,’ ‘Lady Bird,’ ‘Thelma,’ and More

This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats....

Review: ‘My Friend Dahmer’ is a Deeply Misguided Look at the Origins of a Serial Killer

When someone kills seventeen people over a thirteen-year span with words like necrophilia and cannibalism circling each murder, sympathy for the predator — not ...

‘Resident Evil: Extinction’ and Paul W.S. Anderson’s Dawn of Self-Awareness

On its 10th anniversary, we look at the Resident Evil film that marked a key development for Paul W.S. Anderson....

Review: Christopher Doyle Visually Dazzles, Narratively Disappoints in ‘Hong Kong Trilogy’

An often serenely meditative exploration of sociopolitical life in contemporary Hong Kong, Christopher Doyle’s Hong Kong Trilogy is a stunningly-photographed bl...

TIFF Review: ‘Soldiers. Story from Ferentari’ is a Meandering Journey of Romance in Poverty

Based on lead actor Adrian Schiop's fictionalized biography, Ivana Mladenovic's Soldiers. Story From Ferentari shows a world of poverty and futility possessing ...

TIFF Review: ‘The Disaster Artist’ is a Love Letter to Bad Cinema

The Room, a film produced, directed, written, and led by “entrepreneur” Tommy Wiseau, was supposed to be his grand artistic statement. What turned out instead w...

TIFF Review: ‘Les Affamés’ Bites Comfortably Into Zombie Clichés

The zombie film will never die, and as long as it’s popular, people from all over the world will take a stab at cashing in on the success of shows like The Walk...

TIFF Review: ‘Verónica’ is an Intense, But Familiar Tale of Demonic Possession

The story goes that the police were dispatched to a Madrid residence in June of 1991 only to find a teenage girl screaming from what appeared to be self-inflict...

TIFF Review: ‘C’est la vie!’ is an Uproarious Comedy of Errors from ‘The Intouchables’ Duo

I went into Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano’s latest film C’est la vie! knowing nothing about it. My assumption from their two previous works, Intouchables an...

Posterized September 2017: ‘mother!,’ ‘It,’ ‘Woodshock,’ and More

This monthly column focuses on the film industry’s willingness to capitalize on this truth, releasing one-sheets to serve as not representations of what audiences are to expect, but as propaganda to fill seats....