TIFF Review: The Critic is an Improbable, Grim Farce Enlivened by Ian McKellen
Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve has ably demonstrated that a catty feud between theater critics and actresses is crackling subject matter for witty, adult...
Festivals
TIFF Review: Defiant Puts a Spotlight on the Battle for Ukraine
For much of Karim Amer's reliably efficient documentary Defiant we follow Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine. Following Russia's invasion in...
NYFF Review: Frederick Wiseman Indulges with Restaurant Doc Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
The first of Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros' four hours moves as quick as a glacier. Herbs are inspected at a farmer's market. Two chefs weigh up the benifits of...
TIFF Review: Sorry/Not Sorry is a Reductive Inquiry into the Cancellation of Louis C.K.
No institution can dodge Louis C.K.'s comedic legacy and sexual allegations, TIFF included, where he appeared immediately pre-#MeToo with his film I Love You, ...
TIFF Review: Sing Sing is an Emotionally Restorative Portrait of the Artistic Process
“We are here to become human again.” This is the mantra of the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program, founded in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a prison ju...
TIFF Review: Lukas Moodysson’s Together 99 is a Bittersweet, Bruising Reunion
The idyllic dream of leftist commune living, where resources and skills are shared for the greater good, needs a key ingredient to work: people. Two decades af...
TIFF Review: The Promised Land Showcases Mads Mikkelsen in a Light, Entertaining Piece of Historical Fiction
After his 2012 film A Royal Affair received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, Danish writer-director Nikolaj Arcel did what probably seemed l...
TIFF Review: Widow Clicquot Proves a Captivating, Exquisitely Told Biopic
The first thing we learn at the start of Thomas Napper's Widow Clicquot is that Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot (Haley Bennett) loved her husband François (Tom...
TIFF Review: Thank You for Coming is a Jarring Indian Sex Comedy
When it seems that every Indian or Pakistani romance coming down the pike centers on the traditional patriarchal values of arranged marriages and dowry (even w...
TIFF Review: Seagrass is a Compelling Relationship Drama
Everything you need to know about Judith (Ally Maki) and Steve’s (Luke Roberts) marriage arrives during their first “share” at the summer retreat where they’ve...