TIFF Journal: ‘Stronger’
As far as inspirational triumph-over-adversity” Oscar bait pictures go, ‘Stronger’ is a surprisingly complex effort. At its best, the film questions the nature of what constitutes heroism and never panders. Well,...
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TIFF Journal: ‘The Florida Project’
A couple years ago, writer/director Sean Baker had a hell of an indie breakout with his heartfelt, shot-on-iPhone ‘Tangerine’. His follow-up, ‘The Florida Project’, has higher production values (plus Willem...
TIFF Journal: ‘Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the Whit
When the team behind ‘Mark Felt: The Full Title Is Way Too Long’ starting working on this bio-pic, it must have felt like a forgotten political period piece that they weren’t quite sure viewers could relate to. S...
Weekend Box Office: You’ll Float Too
What an absolutely killer weekend! After weeks and weeks of terrible movies, we finally have a new one that’s not only worthwhile, but doubled pre-weekend estimates and crushed several box office records. Juxtaposed next to ...
TIFF Journal: ‘Manhunt’
After a Hollywood burnout and a few fanciful propaganda epics in China, John Woo is finally back to doing what he does best in ‘Manhunt’. Of course, those looking back on the man who gifted the world the image of a dou...
TIFF Journal: ‘The Square’
The surprise Palme d’Or winner at Cannes, ‘The Square’ marks the return of queasy art comedy specialist Ruben Östlund following his 2014 breakout success ‘Force Majeure’. Östlund’s latest is a 2...
TIFF Journal: ‘In the Fade’
Proving that film festivals are never short of artistically-mounted misery, ‘In the Fade’ arrives in TIFF after a successful and award-winning run at Cannes. Despite the deserved accolades, it’s not exactly a mov...
TIFF Journal: ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’
With his English language debut ‘The Lobster’, ‘Dogtooth’ director Yorgos Lanthimos proved that he would lose none of his morbid surrealism or uncompromising cinematic style simply by working with movie sta...
Weekend Movies: Home and Away
After a three-week cinematic drought, this weekend finally delivers some new movies (well, at least one) that just might be worth watching. The promising second Stephen King adaptation of the year is finally here, as is a romantic...
TIFF Journal: ‘Call Me by Your Name’
‘Call Me by Your Name’ is so emotionally specific that it transforms into something universal. It’s a queer love story set in a privileged estate in Italy in the early 1980s, yet so perfectly captures pained glan...
TIFF Journal: ‘Happy End’
Cinematic misery lovers of the world unite! That nasty, fiercely intelligent, and undeniably talented Michael Haneke (‘Amour’, ‘Funny Games’, ‘Caché’) is back! Once again he’s delivered a ...
‘It’ Review: Scarier Things
That Tim Curry performance as Pennywise in the 1990 TV miniseries might be iconic, but beyond that, Stephen King’s magnum horror opus ‘It’ never really got the film adaptation it deserved. Only those who have rea...