TIFF 2024 Review: The Fire Inside
A childhood obsession with boxing, leads Claressa Shields to become an Olympic champion and she soon learns that a gold metal does not...
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...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: Pedro Páramo – “the visual language is of a Hell on Earth worthy of Dante’s Inferno.”
Seeking to fulfill his mother’s dying wish for him to meet his father, Juan Preciado heads to Comala where ghosts roam the abandoned...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: Daughter’s Daughter
A tragic car accident causes a mother to become the legal guardian of her deceased daughter’s embryo. A gathering in a hospital situated...
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