The second collaboration between the artist collective known as The Yes Men and documentarian Laura Nix takes a more personal look behind the collective. The cu...
The trend towards the narrative of the victim in cinema has hit critical mass lately, with all manner of films delving into stories of people who are abused and...
August Strindberg’s 1888 play Miss Julie traces the transference of indignity between two souls who share little more than a pervasive sense of unbelonging. Var...
Directed by Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) with the sense of intimacy required for the material, The Good Lie is a fine film on its own. Its harrowing fir...
Naomi Kawase’s Still the Water begins in a beguiling, abstract way that sets the tone for the rest of her film in more ways than one. First, a beautifully lit a...
We open on a scene that seems ordinary enough. A school teacher (Jose Sacristan) is giving a lecture on the unerring and immutable importance and longevity of t...
With five films under his belt, Xavier Dolan is continuing his rapid output, but his next feature will mark a distinct different path for the director. Afte...
After a Venice premiere, Ramin Bahrani screened his latest film, 99 Homes, at Toronto International Film Festival this week. Starring Andrew Garfield, Micha...
Though a hip-hopera (the last film to earn that label possibly being R. Kelly’s everlasting epic, Trapped in the Closet), Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe puts itself in...
After premiering at Telluride Film Festival, the Morten Tyldum-directed Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game stopped by Toronto International Film Festival...
