Jordan Raup

[TIFF Review] Chicken with Plums

While most feature animations deal with talking animals and anthropomorphized toys, it was joy when we received Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's deep...

[TIFF Video Review] Sleepless Night

The Midnight Madness sidebar at the Toronto International Film Festival is usually filled with your fair share of blood, gore and other twisted torment. Par...

[TIFF Review] The Descendants

Delivering his most emotionally-mature film yet, Alexander Payne examines the importance of family with The Descendants. It is a welcome return for the film...

[TIFF Review] A Dangerous Method

Marking his third collaboration in a row with Viggo Mortensen, director David Cronenberg also teams him with break-out star Michael Fassbender as they delve...

[TIFF Review] The Artist

Whether it be The White Ribbon, Control, The Good German, Tetro or In Search of a Midnight Kiss, there have been a number of films that have utilized the bl...

[TIFF Review] The Ides of March

He may be crafting every decision as director, but George Clooney is in the shadows (and in a key scene, literally) as Governor Mike Morris and Democratic p...

[TIFF Review] Moneyball

As someone whose baseball knowledge consists of nearly striking out at T-Ball as a toddler and information gleaned from ESPN-addicted college roommates, it ...

[TIFF Review] Coriolanus

For his first directing effort, Ralph Fiennes took the bold move of adapting the work of one of our top literary icons, William Shakespeare. Brought to scre...

Jordan Raup

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Jordan Raup is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Film Stage and a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic. Track his obsessive film-watching on Letterboxd.