Reviews

[TIFF Review] The Suicide Shop

Like the animated films of Tim Burton and Henry Selick, Le Magasin des Suicides or The Suicide Shop, directed by Patrice Leconte, is a mixture of merriment and ...

[TIFF Review] Cloud Atlas

In grand fashion comes an epic about freedom and the wrongs of humanity forever marring how we're seen through the annals of time. Every misstep is repeated; ev...

[TIFF Review] Argo

In 1979, tensions between Iran and the United States reached a boil after Ayatollah Khomeini called for a return of his predecessor—Shah Pahlavi—in order to try...

[TIFF Review] Here Comes the Devil

If ever a horror film begged for multiple viewings, Here Comes the Devil (Ahí va el diablo) makes a good case. In fact, until a little over halfway through I wa...
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[TIFF Review] First Comes Love

Perhaps all of the films are starting to run together. Nina Davenport’s often hilarious and extraordinarily brave First Comes Love finishes a trilogy of very ho...

[TIFF Review] Janeane from Des Moines

It’s so easy to take cheap shots at the Tea Party; in fact what Bill Maher can do in a joke or a monologue, Janeane from Des Moines spends 77 minutes doing with...

[TIFF Review] The Impossible

Making a film about a tragedy like the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami should never be taken lightly. With over 230,000 people dead in fourteen countries, the entire ...

[TIFF Review] Hotel Transylvania

Directed by the man behind the animated television shows Dexter’s Laboratory and Samurai Jack, Hotel Transylvania is Genndy Tartakovsky’s first feature film. It...