TIFF

[TIFF Review] The Riot Club

I’ll bet Laura Wade’s 2010 play Posh is something special to see on stage. A fictionalized take on Oxford University’s exclusive Bullingdon Club, it’s debaucher...

[TIFF Review] Adult Beginners

No one is ever going to say Ross Katz's Adult Beginners is original. The opening implosion for Jake's (Nick Kroll) multi-million dollar investment project was d...

[TIFF Review] The New Girlfriend

There is a vast spectrum between the most insensitive and compassionate cinematic portrayals of cross-dressing, and François Ozon’s The New Girlfriend aims some...

[TIFF Review] High Society

Deceptively gentle and delightful, High Society is a distinctively French drama of manors from Julie Lopes-Curval who knows this territory intimately. (Lopes-Cu...

[TIFF Review] Haemoo

Haemoo is an effective moral thriller that immediately mirrors the best work of its co-writer and producer Bong Joon-ho. What starts as slow and straight-forwar...

[TIFF Review] Learning to Drive

Adapted from a New Yorker essay and directed by Isabel Coixet (Elegy), Learning to Drive is often tender and delightful. Traversing territory covered in her pre...

[TIFF Review] Preggoland

Part Todd Solondz, John Waters, Nicole Holofcener, and Bridesmaids, the bitter and cynical Preggoland is a unique comedy. Despite occasionally edging towards ru...

[TIFF Review] The Yes Men Are Revolting

The second collaboration between the artist collective known as The Yes Men and documentarian Laura Nix takes a more personal look behind the collective. The cu...

[TIFF Review] Alive

The trend towards the narrative of the victim in cinema has hit critical mass lately, with all manner of films delving into stories of people who are abused and...

[TIFF Review] Miss Julie

August Strindberg’s 1888 play Miss Julie traces the transference of indignity between two souls who share little more than a pervasive sense of unbelonging. Var...