Reviews

TIFF Review: A brilliant performance by Peter Sarsgaard anchors the harrowing true story of ‘Mr. Jones’

Plot: Based on true events, Mr. Jones dramatizes the story of Gareth Jones, a journalist from Wales, who in 1933… Read More

September 11, 2020

TIFF Review: Despite a compelling Kate Winslet, ‘Ammonite’ remains at a distance

Courtesy of TIFF Plot: In 1840s England, a fossil hunter, Mary Anning who owns her own fossil business but rarely… Read More

September 11, 2020

TIFF Review: ‘Shiva Baby’

Courtesy of TIFF It would be easy to dismiss Danielle (Rachel Sennott) as a wildly self-absorbed and irresponsible college student.… Read More

September 11, 2020

TIFF Review: In ‘Penguin Bloom,’ Naomi Watts can’t save a Hallmark card exhibition of resilience and rebirth

courtesy of TIFF "Everything was perfect," says young Noah Bloom (Griffin Murray-Johnston), as he recollects his family's Thailand vacation in… Read More

September 11, 2020

Film Review: Tom Holland is far from home in ‘The Devil All the Time’

Tom Holland as Arvin Russell (Glen Wilson/Netflix) The Southern Gothic is as American as the second amendment. Flannery O’Connor’s “Wise… Read More

September 11, 2020

Frameline Review: ‘No Hard Feelings (Futur Drei)’

“The future is ours” says Banafshe, an Iranian woman in Germany on the verge of deportation, towards the end of… Read More

September 11, 2020

TIFF Review: Byrned Bridges in ‘American Utopia’

Image courtesy TIFF. "My Name is David Byrne.  I can't take credit for that.  I had no choice in the… Read More

September 10, 2020

TIFF Review: World War II era ‘Tove’ paints a picture of love and loss

Alma Pöysti in Tove We rarely recognize the most formative moments in our lives at the time of their occurrence.… Read More

September 10, 2020

TIFF Review: With a mesmerizing performance by Laetitia Dosch, ‘Simple Passion’ is anything but

Sergei Polunin and Laetitia Dosch in Simple Passion Plot: A single mother falls in love with a younger man who enters her… Read More

September 10, 2020

TIFF Review: Engrossing, ‘The Ties’ that bind examine a marriage in crisis

Luigi Lo Cascio and Alba Rohrwacher in The TIes Plot: In the 1980s, a popular radio presenter and storyteller suddenly… Read More

September 10, 2020

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