TIFF 2022 Review: Women Talking – “Sarah Polley’s masterpiece”
Note: The following review has mentions of sexual abuse and violence “What follows is an act of female imagination,” states a...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: The Good Nurse – “Intense and thought-provoking”
Adapted by Krysty Wilson-Cairns (Oscar nominated for 1917) from a book by Charles Graeber, The Good Nurse tells the true story of Charles...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: What’s Love Got to Do With It? – “An elevated and welcome new slant on the rom-com genre”
In the tradition of Richard Curtis British rom-coms like Four Weddings and a Funeral and Love Actually comes What’s Love Got to Do...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: Devotion
Rising through the ranks of U.S. Navy fighter pilots is Jesse Brown who was the first African-American aviator to graduate from the basic...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: Empire of Light – “Olivia Colman is an acting powerhouse”
A lonely mentally ill movie theatre employee living in an English seaside town in the early 1980s learns about the power of friendship and...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: Baby Ruby – “There are powerful themes explored”
“Nothing’s going to be any different. It’s just a baby,” says Josephine (Noémie Merlant, Portrait of a Lady on...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: Plan 75 – “A quiet, contemplative and largely unsentimental film”
The population of the world is getting older. Where I live, in 2012 one in seven Canadians was a senior. By 2030 it will be almost one in...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: The Whale – “An intimate and heartbreaking film”
In an essay about Moby Dick, a writer describes the whale as a ‘large, emotionless animal.’ It’s a writing that when...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – “A film full of abundant laughs and so many cameos”
“What. Is. Happening?” It was a question I asked myself in disbelief more than once while watching Weird: The Al Yankovic...
Read MoreTIFF 2022 Review: The Fabelmans – “A love letter to cinema”
In 1952, a young boy is being taken to his first movie. And he’s scared. He doesn’t know what to expect. He doesn’t...
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