TIFF 2024 Review: Emilia Pérez
A notorious drug kingpin wants to go through a sex change operation and start a new life as a woman. Tired of keeping guilty affluent...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: Riff Raff – “a missed opportunity.”
News Years Eve celebrations get interrupted for Vince and his family when a former criminal associate arrives seeks retribution. An...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: Do I Know You From Somewhere?
A couple seems to move in and out of each other’s life at random or is it caused by the intersection of two different relationship...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: The Deb – “a solid debut and full of catchy tunes”
Musicals can be a hard market to crack. Those who love them (like me) are truly excited when something new comes to the big screen. But,...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: The Life of Chuck – “a life-affirming crowd-pleaser.”
What would you do if you knew the world was ending? What about just if YOUR world was ending? Many characters in Mike Flanagan’s...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: Will & Harper – “something special”
When Will Ferrell got an e-mail from his friend, then known as Andrew Steele, it started simply and casually as “Hey, Will.”...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: The Last Showgirl – “For Pamela Anderson, this is a role she has been waiting to play.”
“I’m 42, but this house is huge and distance helps,” says Shelley (Pamela Anderson) as she auditions for a new dancing...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: Paying For It – “At times exceedingly awkward and at times tender.”
At the beginning of Sook-Yin Lee’s newest film Paying For It, Sonny (Emily Lê), who is laying in bed next to her partner, Chester (Dan...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: A Missing Part
A Frenchman living in Japan discovers that a passenger in his taxi cab may well be his long-lost daughter. A French woman desperate to...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: We Live in Time – “signing yourself up for heartache, but the journey is exquisite.”
Back in 2015, director John Crowley made the much-loved Brooklyn, a period romance with Saoirse Ronan that also happened to play at the...
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