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[TIFF Review] Girls Lost

Writer/director Alexandra-Therese Keining's adaptation of Jessica Schiefuer's 2011 August Prize-winning (Sweden) young adult novel Pojkarna (translated as The B...

[TIFF Review] Len and Company

Hearing how deeply a film touched its cast lends a certain air that might not normally be there. Len and Company has it as Juno Temple and star Rhys Ifans both ...

[TIFF Review] Men & Chicken

While I'm not familiar with Anders Thomas Jensen's solo work, I am with the films he has collaborated on opposite Susanne Bier. So to see images of his latest M...

[TIFF Review] Mia Madre

The opening credits of Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre, with portentous music set against a black background, set off a few warning bells. Has the weight of the human...

[TIFF Review] Ville-Marie

It may only be his second feature-length fictional narrative, but writer/director Guy Édoin's Ville-Marie is something special. The title is named after the Mon...

[TIFF Review] A Patch of Fog

After Michael Lennox's success with the Oscar-nominated short Boogaloo and Graham, it was only a matter of time before he'd delve back into the feature game wit...

[TIFF Review] We Monsters

We Monsters doesn’t dally but dives straight in -- the action and crux of the story is virtually immediate. Hip dad Paul (Mehdi Nebbou) and his moody teen Sarah...

[TIFF Review] Black

The buzz on Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's film Black is that it's a contemporary take on a Shakespearean classic. Saying as much is an apt description and Ro...