Reviews

[TIFF Review] Chicken with Plums

While most feature animations deal with talking animals and anthropomorphized toys, it was joy when we received Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's deep...

[TIFF Video Review] Sleepless Night

The Midnight Madness sidebar at the Toronto International Film Festival is usually filled with your fair share of blood, gore and other twisted torment. Par...

[TIFF Review] Romeo Eleven

Who is Rami? Or better yet, who should Rami be? It’s the question he fears to ask himself while the people surrounding him attempt to give the answer. Shoul...

[TIFF Review] 50/50

Drawing from a dark time in his own life, first-time screenwriter Will Reiser translates the good, the bad and the goofy elements of his battle with a rare and ...

[TIFF Review] Habibi

A love letter stuck in limbo—forever undelivered, returned to sender, and lost in transit—the union between Layla and Qays can never be cemented. Caught in ...

[TIFF Review] Whores’ Glory

Concluding a trilogy that goes places even Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs could never go (not on a basic cable anyway), Michael Glawogger’s Whores' Glory is lucid,...

[TIFF Review] A Monster in Paris

After a decade in the Hollywood system directing the likes of The Road to El Dorado and Shark Tale, Bibo Bergeron decided to return home to his native Franc...

[TIFF Review] Oslo, August 31st

Memory and nostalgia—these are the things Joachim Trier sought when creating his dark, hopeful and depressing love letter to his hometown. Rather than use t...

[TIFF Review] Friends with Kids

This has been the year of romantic comedies doing their best to overcome the genre and crossover to succeed with men and women alike. An unintentional reuni...