Reviews

[TIFF Review] Cemetery of Splendour

If it is by now redundant to say that Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (who understands pronunciation troubles and insists people call him “Joe”) is tru...

[TIFF Review] Hitchcock/Truffaut

We’ve heard it many times before: back in the '50s and '60s, Alfred Hitchcock was considered just a vulgar entertainer, making box-office hits for the unwashed ...

[Review] Breathe

In many ways, a friendship is more difficult to navigate or justify than a romantic relationship. Romance is a singular event, confined to a single person at a ...

[TIFF Review] Mekko

Seeking to bridge the divide between contemporary filmmaking and Native American spiritualism, writer/director Sterlin Harjo's Mekko provides a tale of redempti...

[Venice Review] Afternoon

It’s always been easier to review Tsai Ming-liang’s films than to make sense of them. Characterized by an often impenetrable language of silence and immobility,...

[Venice Review] Remember

A partial return to form for director Atom Egoyan comes in this Christopher Plummer-starring geriatric revenge thriller – Nazi hunting for the Best Exotic Marig...

[TIFF Review] The Other Side

Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini has long held his ever-fascinated gaze on America's unwanted, isolated or forgotten people. Last year, he finalized his Texa...

[TIFF Review] Victoria

If director/co-writer Sebastian Schipper wanted, he could have easily turned Victoria into a first-person adventure through the streets of Berlin. It practicall...

[Venice Review] Blood of My Blood

The town of Bobbio, in central Italy, often recurs in Marco Bellocchio’s history, in the same way that the 17th-century episode of the ‘nun of Monza’ (whose aff...

[TIFF Review] Spear

Interpretative dance is not something to be lightly taken. You either have the propensity to let it wash over you in its loose gyrations of emotional expression...