Reviews

[TIFF Review] What Richard Did

Jealousy could be the most destructive force in youth culture. With hormones raging to drive a need for companionship to help prevail through high school and re...

[TIFF Review] Something in the Air

Sex, drugs, art, and revolution -- such was the life of a young European in 1971. Or at least it was the life of a young director at 17 trying to reconcile the ...

[TIFF Review] Anna Karenina

When TIFF director and CEO Piers Handling introduced the newest adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina by saying director Joe Wright appropriately played up ...

[TIFF Review] Seven Psychopaths

It takes a deranged mind to be this fascinated with psychopaths, let alone seven of them. Colin Farrell’s Marty gets to quite literally take his work home with ...

[TIFF Review] End of Watch

With studios always striving to cut costs, the handheld approach has been a crutch to keep budgets low and give audiences a reason for it. While it's been execu...

[Review] The Good Doctor

As I watched director Lance Daly’s medical thriller The Good Doctor, I kept thinking about a particular bit from the podcast Doug Loves Movies. In it, comedian ...

[TIFF Review] Inch’Allah

It's truly amazing to watch how guilt, regret, and sorrow can change the very make-up of your character. It may only be for a brief while, but that moment can i...

[TIFF Review] When I Saw You

Leave it to writer/director Annemarie Jacir to make an American more or less indoctrinated to side with the Israelis in the war for the Holy Land see her people...

[Review] [REC] 3: Genesis

When zombies first shuffled onto the screen in George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead, it was left unclear just how the dead came to rise again. Many theories...