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[TIFF Review] Mia Madre

The opening credits of Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre, with portentous music set against a black background, set off a few warning bells. Has the weight of the human...

[TIFF Review] Ville-Marie

It may only be his second feature-length fictional narrative, but writer/director Guy Édoin's Ville-Marie is something special. The title is named after the Mon...

[TIFF Review] A Patch of Fog

After Michael Lennox's success with the Oscar-nominated short Boogaloo and Graham, it was only a matter of time before he'd delve back into the feature game wit...

[TIFF Review] We Monsters

We Monsters doesn’t dally but dives straight in -- the action and crux of the story is virtually immediate. Hip dad Paul (Mehdi Nebbou) and his moody teen Sarah...

[TIFF Review] Black

The buzz on Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah's film Black is that it's a contemporary take on a Shakespearean classic. Saying as much is an apt description and Ro...

[TIFF Review] A Heavy Heart

A Heavy Heart is a film about the almosts, or to be more precise, the almost almosts. It takes place somewhere in Germany in a town/city full of bull headed men...

[TIFF Review] Cemetery of Splendour

If it is by now redundant to say that Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (who understands pronunciation troubles and insists people call him “Joe”) is tru...

[TIFF Review] Hitchcock/Truffaut

We’ve heard it many times before: back in the '50s and '60s, Alfred Hitchcock was considered just a vulgar entertainer, making box-office hits for the unwashed ...