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[TIFF Review] The Magnificent Seven

Rather than the 1960 version or the film it was based on, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai, Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven brought deja vu of the unexpecte...

[TIFF Review] We Are Never Alone

Fans of Quentin Dupieux should rejoice because I haven't seen a film this absurdly hilarious since Wrong. Petr Václav's We Are Never Alone is definitely bleaker...

[Venice Review] Austerlitz

Having experimented with feature-length fiction films, shorts, and archival-footage documentaries in the course of his career, Sergei Loznitsa’s output since hi...

[Review] Sully

You know the inciting incident because it is not quite like any in recorded human history, and you could stare at the foreboding, nigh-apocalyptic poster to no ...

[Review] Demon

Nothing's allowed to derail the guests of a Polish wedding from having fun, not even the groom's epileptic seizure. You just pick him up and cart him out. Send ...

[Venice Review] Planetarium

It'd be one thing, a simpler thing, if Rebecca Zlotowski's Planetarium was a middle-of-the-road effort that's over and done with in less than two hours. Alas, i...

[Venice Review] Jackie

Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín certainly isn’t beating around the bush with his latest film, Jackie, a strange, refreshingly cynical, and unexpectedly cerebral...