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[TIFF Review] Zoology

For a way in, maybe we can detect that Zoology writer-director Ivan I. Tverdovsky is a fan of sad-boy rock star Morrissey, because the first ten to fifteen minu...

[TIFF Review] Zacma: Blindness

The roles have been reversed for Julia Brystygier (Maria Mamona), the once powerful colonel in the USSR's Ministry. She interrogated countless enemies of the st...

[TIFF Review] The Death of Louis XIV

A fair question to ask: why The Sun King now? Perhaps American icons are always ripe for deconstruction as, after all, we have the world’s greatest (or rather d...

[TIFF Review] Pyromaniac

Going in with no expectations besides the recent news that the film had been shortlisted for Norway’s 2017 Oscar selection, director Erik Skjoldbjærg's Pyromani...

[TIFF Review] Nocturama

Here's an elevator pitch: Nocturama is Robert Bresson’s The Devil, Probably in a homegrown-terrorist garb that substitutes transcendental style for the form of ...

[Venice Review] The Age of Shadows

Eyebrows were raised when it was announced that South Korea will submit the as-yet-unreleased espionage thriller The Age of Shadows for Oscar consideration inst...

[TIFF Review] Souvenir

It starts with bubbles. So many bubbles rising slowly in liquid as the opening credits in script font flash onscreen. And when the camera finally pans out to se...