Reviews

[TIFF Review] The Finishers

The Finishers is a wonderful, crowd-pleasing tearjerker from director Nils Tavernier, inspired by the real-life Hoyt family from Holland, MA. Fabien Héraud star...

[TIFF Review] Lucky Them

Starring Toni Collette and directed by Megan Griffiths, Lucky Them is a strong character study centered around a Seattle rarely seen on film: infused with the h...

[TIFF Review] Blood Ties

Guillaume Canet’s Blood Ties not only tells a story that’s been wrought so often, but, worse yet, in a manner that lacks the raw, rough, and ready energy of tho...

[TIFF Review] R100

What do you get when you cross one of Japan's most influential comedians, a premise similar to The Game -- but with a zany wild streak of subversive humor -- an...

[TIFF Review] Tracks

A stunningly beautiful film, director John Curran's Tracks traces the physical and psychological 1,700-mile trek of Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) from the cen...

[TIFF Review] The Strange Little Cat

Running a brief 72 minutes, The Strange Little Cat joins the hour-long Viola as 2013's second feature that will require multiple viewings, but ones which will p...

[Review] The Family

There’s no question that Luc Besson has a grasp on stylish thrillers. The French writer and director can claim responsibility for a few exceptional titles in th...

[TIFF Review] A Field in England

"A coward becomes a man" is, I suppose, the crux of Ben Wheatley’s newest thriller, A Field in England. We find Whitehead (Reece Shearsmith) hiding in the bushe...

[TIFF Review] Devil’s Knot

The most disturbing thing about the case regarding those most commonly known as the West Memphis Three is that some version of it can be still happening, right ...