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[TIFF Review] Trespass Against Us

It's clear within the first few minutes of first-time director Adam Smith’s Trespass Against Us — as a muddy Subaru races after a bounding rabbit in the U.K. co...

[TIFF Review] Apprentice

Perhaps just another narrative about a millennial finding their calling, Apprentice zeroes in on Aiman (Fir Rahman), a man in his late '20s still living with hi...

[TIFF Review] A Monster Calls

When your author and illustrator both win Carnegie and Greenaway Medals for the same book, you can bet Hollywood will come knocking. Even though the production ...

[TIFF Review] Free Fire

TIFF’s Colin Geddes was correct when introducing Ben Wheatley’s bottle episode of a film Free Fire with the words: “This will wake you up.” The gunfire alone ri...

[TIFF Review] Burn Your Maps

Many films deal with the aftermath of a family death by becoming about how their characters live with the pain -- it changing them into different people. Some d...

[TIFF Review] The Fixer

Some people can't help themselves from striving to be the best whether that means winning a contest, getting a promotion, earning accolades, or proving you're t...

[TIFF Review] Werewolf

Writer/director Ashley McKenzie's feature debut Werewolf picks up right where her 2012 short When You Sleep left off. We're back in Canadian squalor on the pove...

[TIFF Review] Little Wing

The director of Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?, the hilarious 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Short Film, is back with her sophomore feature narrative Little...

[TIFF Review] Zoology

For a way in, maybe we can detect that Zoology writer-director Ivan I. Tverdovsky is a fan of sad-boy rock star Morrissey, because the first ten to fifteen minu...