Reviews

[TIFF Review] Wasted Youth

Wasted Youth is a curious concoction, a disaffected-teens drama with tragic consequences that feels a bit too familiar, yet mostly succeeds thanks to its settin...

[TIFF Review] Blue Ruin

92 minutes of taut physical activity, morbid humor, and gruesome violence, Jeremy Saulnier’s Blue Ruin is one of the year’s leanest and most impressive killing ...

[Review] Riddick

One must give David Twohy’s Riddick credit for caring about its protagonist and the world he inhabits, so much so that the first twenty minutes of this pulpy sc...

[TIFF Review] Manakamana

First image: absolute darkness. We hear the sounds of mechanical contraptions and can see small flashes of light. We’re inside a huge structure, but what causes...

[Review] A Teacher

While we must assume the how of high school English teacher Diana Watts (Lindsay Burdge) and senior Eric Tull’s (Will Brittain) union, it isn’t hard to understa...

[Review] Bounty Killer

With so many iconic comic book properties transforming into big budget drama to capitalize on contemporary society’s interest in broodingly haunted souls findin...

[Review] American Milkshake

As someone who graduated with the Class of 2000, the idea of high school comedy American Milkshake taking place in the '90s definitely piqued my interest. I oft...

[Review] One Direction: This is Us

I feel as if I learned very little from One Direction: This is Us, a movie that is more of a consumer product or an event than an actual feature film. My guess ...

[Review] Afternoon Delight

For a woman like Rachel (Kathryn Hahn), who, after a few too many drinks, will candidly admit to a wild college life in her twenties, a sexual awakening wasn’t ...

[Review] I Declare War

While containing the inherent inexperience that comes with an entire cast of twelve-year olds, Jason Lapeyre and Robert Wilson’s I Declare War proves potent fro...