Reviews

[Fantastic Fest Review] Terry Teo

Four years ago, Danger 5 screened at Fantastic Fest to a welcome response. In 2014, Wastelander Panda was met with similar acclaim. Now, a similarly entertainin...

[Fantastic Fest Review] Dearest Sister

People say that there is art through adversity. As such, to begin, it’s worth stating that Mattie Do‘s latest feature is the 13th film to come out of Laos… in i...

[Fantastic Fest Review] A Dark Song

At Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the United States, you tend to get two types of films. First, there’s the wacky, chimerical, excess-for-th...

[TIFF Review] The Animal’s Wife

Colombia's tourism department won't be sanctioning Víctor Gaviria's The Animal's Wife anytime soon and I definitely will never be visiting to see how accurate a...

[TIFF Review] Indivisible

It starts off so magically with conjoined twins Dasy (Angela Fontana) and Viola (Marianna Fontana) bringing hope and the word of God to the unfortunate souls la...

[TIFF Review] Forever Pure

Just when you think it can't get worse—that the vocal, racist minority spewing bile will be extinguished in a show of tide-turning empathy—everything is literal...

[TIFF Review] In Between

It's Tel Aviv in 2016 and the parties are wild. Drinking, dancing, snorting, kissing — it's time for twenty-year olds to have fun and be alive. But whereas in A...

[Review] The Dressmaker

Rosalie Ham’s 2000 novel The Dressmaker is described as “Gothic,” but its new film adaptation more often comes across as a picaresque with too much killjoy dram...

[TIFF Review] Goldstone

Another missing girl has Detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pedersen) on the move while the world continues to turn a blind eye. This time it isn't an aboriginal, though...