‘Happy Holidays’ Review: Scandar Copti’s Winning Screenplay Offers an Unflinching Look at the Impossibilities of Integration | TIFF
Fresh off a well-deserved Orizzonti Award win for Best Screenplay at the Venice Film Festival, Scandar Copti’s Happy Holidays lands at TIFF and does not... Read More
Toronto International Film Festival
‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ Review: Rungano Nyoni Blends Fantasy and Reality in Daring Story of Generational Trauma and Relief | TIFF
A car passes along a dark road at night, then stops when a body appears. The driver, dressed like Missy Elliot in the music video... Read More
‘The Deb’ Review: Not Quite a Rebel Yell But Wilson’s Dynamic Directorial Debut Delights | TIFF
The most successful actor-turn-directors tend to be those who have a clearly-defined voice that they are able to transfer from in front of the camera... Read More
‘The Fire Inside’ Review: Rachel Morrison’s Directorial Feature debut is a Sincere Yet Unremarkable, By-the-Numbers Sports Biopic | TIFF
Award-winning cinematographer Rachel Morrison (the first woman ever Oscar-nominated for cinematography) makes her feature debut with The Fire Inside, an earnest yet conventional picture that... Read More
‘The Life of Chuck’ Review: Mike Flanagan’s Offbeat Stephen King-Based Tom Hiddleston Drama Mostly Hits the Mark | TIFF
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)” So goes Walt Whitman’s classic poem “Song of Myself.”... Read More
‘All of You’ Review: Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots’ Chemistry Can’t Save an Underdeveloped, Badly Paced Sci-Fi Romance | TIFF
Every year, the Toronto International Film Festival has a handful of small scale science fiction relationship dramas, all hoping to be the next Eternal Sunshine... Read More
‘Việt and Nam’ Review: Trương Minh Quý’s Haunting and Melancholic Look at a Country Struggling with its Past | TIFF
Life can be a series of question marks that are never resolved. We may forever wrestle with the possibilities and scenarios, but we are never... Read More
‘Heretic’ Review: Hugh Grant is a Creep and a Weirdo in Deviously Devilish Debate About Religion | TIFF
Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton are doing missionary work for the Mormon Church. Paxton (Chloe East from The Fabelmans) is a sweet, bubbly chatterbox, while... Read More
‘The Substance’ Review: Coralie Fargeat Feeds Us Moore Gore in Blood-Soaked Rumination on Female Body Image | TIFF
Women know body horror all too well. Before we can even really grasp what they mean, the standards embedded in us tell us our bodies... Read More
‘Without Blood’ Review: Angelina Jolie Directs Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir With Lots of Looks But Little Content | TIFF
Writer/director Angelina Jolie has shown a penchant for challenging films depicting war when she is behind the camera—think First They Killed My Father or Unbroken.... Read More
Director Watch Podcast Ep. 144 – ‘A Matter of Life and Death (Powell and Pressburger, 1946) with Special Guest Jesse Nussman 
Association of Motion Picture Sound (AMPS) Television and Nonfiction Nominations Announced: ‘Adolescence,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘Slow Horses’ and More 
Trailer Watch: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day,’ ‘Dune: Part Three,’ Disclosure Day,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’ 
‘Anima’ Review: Sydney Chandler and Takehiro Hira Ground Brian Tetsuro Ivie’s Low-Fi Sci-Fi Road Movie [B+] SXSW