Coverage of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival continues apace with reviews of THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER, THE WHALE, THE INSPECTION and MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY.
Category: Reviews
TIFF 2022 Report #3
Tomas has more TIFF reviews to share, including thoughts on GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY, ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED, PACIFICTION and CASA SUSANNA.
TIFF 2022 Report #2
Reporting continues out of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival with reviews of THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, THE SON, WILL-O’-THE-WISP and VIKING.
TIFF 2022 Report #1
This first dispatch from the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival includes reviews of THE FABELMANS, HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE, SOMETHING YOU SAID LAST NIGHT and I LIKE MOVIES.
TIFF 2021 Report #3
The third writeup of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival includes reviews of SPENCER, THE TSUGUA DIARIES and TITANE.
TIFF 2021 Report #2
Our second dispatch from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival features takes on some of the festival’s hottest tickets: LAST NIGHT IN SOHO, BELFAST and THE POWER OF THE DOG.
TIFF 2021 Report #1
This first dispatch from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival includes reviews of MEMORIA, DRIVE MY CAR, COMPARTMENT NO. 6 and EARWIG.
TIFF 2020 Dispatch
This dispatch from the virtual edition of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival includes reviews of SHIVA BABY, NIGHT OF THE KINGS, NO ORDINARY MAN and NOMADLAND.
Downton Abbey (Engler, 2019)
When Downton Abbey ended its television run in 2015, there was no question it would return in some capacity. It was not a question of “if”—it was a question of “when.” Now fans have their chance to […]
Judy (Goold, 2019)
I find it difficult to be too hard on a film that is so irrevocably buoyed by its lead performance, and such is the case with Judy, a film which wouldn’t have passed muster without its […]
Brittany Runs a Marathon (Colaizzo, 2019)
As someone who is plus-sized in the way Brittany (Jillian Bell) is, I do appreciate a film like this coming along and contending with the inherent messiness of body positivity, particularly the idea of being […]
TIFF Review: Joker (Phillips, 2019)
I was not originally planning to see Joker during the festival, but when it won the Golden Lion in Venice, I was curious. No doubt many other critics were, too. And so it was that […]
TIFF Review: Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Sciamma, 2019)
It’s 2019 and a new lesbian romance has set hearts alight—and cooled many others. Quite reminiscent of the critical discourse that surrounded Todd Haynes’ Carol in 2015, Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire has evoked […]
TIFF Review: Bacurau (Mendonça Filho & Dornelles, 2019)
Kleber Mendonça Filho is one of the most exciting filmmakers working today—and Bacurau is only his third feature. Despite his minimal output thus far, I do believe I’m right in saying so. His debut, Neighboring Sounds, is […]
TIFF Review: Waves (Shults, 2019)
I can understand Waves at a conceptual level, but try as I might, I can’t take to its concrete, finished form. Beyond the audaciousness of slamming us right into the high-maintenance world of high school wrestler […]
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