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[TIFF Review] The Ones Below

With comparisons to Hitchcock and Polanski, David Farr's directorial debut The Ones Below starts behind the eight ball straight away. There are definite moments...

[TIFF Review] Hellions

There's a lot I like about Bruce McDonald's latest horror Hellions. Just as much also has me scratching my head, though. While this sometimes enhances the exper...

[TIFF Review] Phantom Boy

French directors Alain Gagnol (who also wrote) and Jean-Loup Felicioli have another winner on their hands with Phantom Boy. The much-anticipated follow-up to th...

[TIFF Review] I Saw the Light

The opening to Marc Abraham's I Saw the Light holds a lot of intrigue. Based on Colin Escott's biography about hillbilly legend Hank Williams, the start goes fr...

[TIFF Review] The Reflektor Tapes

A list of things The Reflektor Tapes comes close to being but doesn’t quite end up as: a concert film stitching together Arcade Fire's work on a worldwide tour ...

[TIFF Review] Yakuza Apocalypse

Something is off within the opening minutes of our Yakuza tale as heavy doses of computer-generated bloodshed elevate the proceedings to, in perhaps an understa...

[TIFF Review] Girls Lost

Writer/director Alexandra-Therese Keining's adaptation of Jessica Schiefuer's 2011 August Prize-winning (Sweden) young adult novel Pojkarna (translated as The B...

[TIFF Review] Len and Company

Hearing how deeply a film touched its cast lends a certain air that might not normally be there. Len and Company has it as Juno Temple and star Rhys Ifans both ...

[TIFF Review] Men & Chicken

While I'm not familiar with Anders Thomas Jensen's solo work, I am with the films he has collaborated on opposite Susanne Bier. So to see images of his latest M...