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[TIFF Review] Sarah Palin – You Betcha!

Although I think it is valid to view a film through the prism of political conditions, I shall tread lightly here. To ignore this, largely ignores “Film His...

[TIFF Review] Random

I’m not sure there’s a way to discuss Random, an adaptation of a one-women show, without discussing the random event at the core of the film. A film like th...

[TIFF Review] Girl Model

Interested in the end results of globalization, David Redmond and Ashley Sabin previously chronicled the end product of Mardi Gras party beads in Mardi Gras: ...

[TIFF Review] Alois Nebel

Alois Nebel, the first feature film of director Tomáš Luňák, is a moody black-and-white animated film that diverts from the conventional rules of film form ...

[TIFF Review] Trespass

It would be ignorant to deny certain preconceived notions going into a Joel Schumacher home invasion movie starring Nicolas Cage. I was dumbfounded when it ...

[TIFF Review] Wuthering Heights

Aside from being creepily old, if the Brontë sisters were still alive today, they would be delighted. After their work has been adapted a dozen times over, ...

[TIFF Review] Shame

Three years after their first collaboration—and the director’s debut film—Steve McQueen and star Michael Fassbender return with the viscerally intense Shame...