Reviews

[NYFF Review] Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

You can find Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory at the rarefied juncture where reality and art meet, with each pulling the other to form something greater than simp...

[Review] Real Steel

Director Shawn Levy has delivered some of the more cringe-worthy kids films in recent memory. In past Levy films, one can witness artificial hearts, a prono...

[VIFF Review] Bumrush

Not to be outdone by its New York City and Chicago counterparts, the Montreal gang wars of the past decade prove Canada isn’t the idyllic place of kindness ...

[VIFF Review] Top Floor, Left Wing

How do you turn a hostage situation concerning cocaine, eviction notices, and Algerian assassins into a stage for bureaucratic ineptitude and slum reform? A...

[VIFF Review] Miss Bala

If you ever have a daughter that begs you for entrance into a beauty pageant and you can’t bring yourself to comply, pop on Miss Bala and she’ll never ask a...

[VIFF Review] Patang

For Chicago-born Indian-American Prashant Bhargava, his debut feature film Patang is a seven-year labor of love. Rooted in the memory of his own uncles fig...

[VIFF Review] Innocence

According to the program for this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, director Jan Hrebejk and writer Petr Jarchovsky have visited many times with...

[VIFF Review] Pure

What’s worse than giving sex to a married man for money? Giving it for love. It’s a tough distinction to delineate for a reformed twenty-year old prostitute...

[VIFF Review] Kill List

Some films find a way to surprise, intrigue, and confound all at once, leading you down a rabbit hole that becomes bleaker with every step as it uncovers se...