TIFF 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...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: Nightbitch – “we all need to feel the freedom to run free”
“What fresh hell awaits you today?” Amy Adams’ character (known simply as Mother) asks herself in the mirror. And...
Read MoreTIFF 2024 Review: The Wolves Always Come at Night – “The visual language adds to the believability.”
A devastating sandstorm causes a goat herder to losing half of his livestock and causes him and his family to relocate to the city. Life...
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