Film Reviews

TIFF Review: ‘Never Gonna Snow Again’ is a thoughtful and challenging take on class and greed with a sci-fi lens

Courtesy of Lava Films Plot: A Ukrainian immigrant with special powers succeeds in entering Poland where he starts working as… Read More

September 12, 2020

TIFF Review: Through myth and folktale, ‘Night of the Kings’ is rich and immersive and wholly unique

Courtesy of TIFF Plot: A young man is sentenced to the MACA prison in Abidjan, and must tell the other… Read More

September 12, 2020

TIFF Review: ‘Penguin Bloom’ avoids ableist pitfalls with a compelling narrative and standout performance by Naomi Watts

Courtesy of TIFF Australian director Glendyn Ivin’s newest film Penguin Bloom tells the true story of Sam Bloom, who suffers… Read More

September 12, 2020

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

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