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[TIFF Review] Ta’ang

A text against a black screen informs us of the Ta’ang ethnicity belonging to Myanmar, a nation engulfed in an endless civil war, which happens to be driving it...

[TIFF Review] Colossal

Whether the existence of time travel or an alien invasion, writer/director Nacho Vigalondo has proven king at dealing with large-scale concepts affecting small-...

[TIFF Review] Wakefield

Bryan Cranston’s Howard Wakefield seems to have a great life. He is a successful New York City lawyer, is married to a loving wife, has two teenage girls, and o...

[TIFF Review] Paris Can Wait

With her last feature directorial credit being contributions to 1991's Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, Eleanor Coppola is perhaps better known as ...

[TIFF Review] Denial

There's often a genuine dramatic pull to films in the courtroom drama genre, yet they've suffered the last few decades because of the conventional tropes that c...

[TIFF Review] The Edge of Seventeen

Festival films about teenage angst are a dime a dozen, or maybe a nickel at this point. The genre is as constrained by its expected tropes as horror or superher...

[TIFF Review] Bleed for This

There's something about boxing movies that gets butts in seats regardless of so many being practically the same story. The formula almost always concerns some t...

[TIFF Review] Barry

During his college days in New York, Barack Obama used to be called “Barry.” At that point in time he hadn’t fully embraced his African American roots yet, but ...