Directed by Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) with the sense of intimacy required for the material, The Good Lie is a fine film on its own. Its harrowing fir...
Naomi Kawase’s Still the Water begins in a beguiling, abstract way that sets the tone for the rest of her film in more ways than one. First, a beautifully lit a...
We open on a scene that seems ordinary enough. A school teacher (Jose Sacristan) is giving a lecture on the unerring and immutable importance and longevity of t...
With five films under his belt, Xavier Dolan is continuing his rapid output, but his next feature will mark a distinct different path for the director. Afte...
After a Venice premiere, Ramin Bahrani screened his latest film, 99 Homes, at Toronto International Film Festival this week. Starring Andrew Garfield, Micha...
Though a hip-hopera (the last film to earn that label possibly being R. Kelly’s everlasting epic, Trapped in the Closet), Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe puts itself in...
After premiering at Telluride Film Festival, the Morten Tyldum-directed Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game stopped by Toronto International Film Festival...
In 2012, Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Chang Jung-chi made his narrative feature debut with Touch of Light. The first time effort paid off, as the drama, whic...
Last year’s TIFF was a busy festival for Jake Gyllenhaal, with the premieres of two Denis Villeneuve features, Enemy and Prisoners. Though he premiered only...
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