TIFF Journal: ‘Adult Beginners’
You know how hilarious it can be to watch grown-ass adults behave like children? Well, ‘Adult Beginners’ is another one of those movies. Thankfully, it’s also a pretty good one.
You know how hilarious it can be to watch grown-ass adults behave like children? Well, ‘Adult Beginners’ is another one of those movies. Thankfully, it’s also a pretty good one.
Jason Reitman is a tough director to pin down. He clearly wants to be taken seriously and often attempts to dive into dark subject matter. Yet, he’s also a crowd-pleaser who tugs on emotions freely and wants a populist respo...
Chris Rock writes, directs and stars in a movie that finally knows how to use Chris Rock properly. Who could have possibly guessed that he would have to do it himself to get it right? Well, pretty much everyone, I suppose. Still, ...
If you were to put together a lineup of films including ‘The Voices’ and attempted to guess which one came from ‘Persepolis‘ director Marjane Satrapi, it’s safe to say that no one would get the right ...
Robert Downey, Jr. and Robert Duvall combine forces for an estranged father/son bonding story that doubles as a courtroom drama. In other words, the movie is practically designed to win golden awards statues. Thankfully, it’...
When one thinks of Oxford University, the images that come to mind are typically of erudite young English folk sipping tea and discussing complex schools of thought in well-pressed suits. However, there’s that class warfare ...
If there’s one thing that can be said about ‘The Cobbler’, it’s that the movie truly goes for it. Yet, what exactly “it” might be is much more difficult to pin down. This movie is absolutely nut...
Last summer, Jon Stewart left ‘The Daily Show’ to direct his first feature film based on a script he wrote. It was a strange, ballsy and unexpected move, one that will inevitably get the film more criticism than would ...
Proving once again that few things are creepier than love, ‘Alleluia’ is a horrible date movie for anyone in a functional relationship. Or maybe it’s the perfect movie, pushing romantic obsession to a psychotic e...
The mortgage crisis gets the ‘Wall Street’ treatment in ’99 Homes’, in both all the right and all the wrong ways. The movie hinges on a pair of brilliant performances and has an excellent first hour. Howeve...
Fans of ’70s crime drama and specifically William Friedkin’s ‘The French Connection’ are guaranteed to get a kick out of Céderic Jimenez’s ‘The Connection’, which finally tells the French ...
Michael Winterbottom’s latest cinematic experiment starts off loosely based on a filmmaker investigating the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher in Italy before almost instantly dropping that subject matter in favor of a charact...