Reviews

[TIFF Review] Trick or Treaty?

A constant fixture with the National Film Board of Canada, director Alanis Obomsawin's latest documentary spans a variety of themes surrounding the weighted sub...

[TIFF Review] The Drop

Finding international acclaim with the bleak, riveting 2011 Belgian drama Bullhead, director Michaël R. Roskam has returned with his Hollywood follow-up, the En...

[Review] The Longest Week

Clearly inspired by the works of Wes Anderson and Woody Allen (although failing to reach the heights of either), The Longest Week follows Contrad Valmont (Jason...

[TIFF Review] Horse Money

Often, when defining the auteur, one of the first things we go to is the consistency of location -- that through a certain booming metropolis, quaint small town...

[Venice Review] Good Kill

Andrew Niccol made a name for himself with a particular brand of topical filmmaking (Gattaca, The Truman Show, S1mone, Lord of War, In Time) keen on capturing a...

[Review] The Identical

Continuing the evolution of faith-based cinema, The Identical is a film that will certainly appeal to its core audience succeeding as an engaging, energetic dra...

[TIFF Review] Corbo

There's ease to idolizing the IRA for rising against their British oppressors because the number of Irish descendants retaining a piece of nationalism at heart ...

[Venice Review] Pasolini

"Cinema is a never-ending long take," Pier Paolo Pasolini once said. "And death is a form of instant editing of a whole life, picking and arranging our most sig...

[Venice Review] Cymbeline

It was 2000 when Michael Almereyda debuted his Hamlet adaptation, with a young Ethan Hawke as the troubled prince and a steely, haughty Manhattan skyscraper in ...