TIFF 2023 Review: Pain Hustlers
A financially struggling pole dancer accepts a job offer from sales representative at pharmaceutical startup that is on the verge of...
Read MoreTIFF 2023 Review: The End We Start From
An environmental disaster causes a new mother, her partner and their infant to leave London and seek refuge in the English countryside. As...
Read MoreTIFF 2023 Review: Seven Veils – “The story at times becomes extremely unsettling”
While remounting and directing the Canadian Opera Company production of Salome in honour of her mentor, Jeanine faces her own personal...
Read MoreTIFF 2023 Review: Wicked Little Letters – “A joyous, light-hearted comedy”
“This is more true than you’d think” states the beginning of Wicked Little Letters. And the fact that this is based on...
Read MoreTIFF 2023 Review: Lee
Former model Lee Miller transitions to being a news photographer for Vogue and documents the atrocities caused by World War II. Tired of...
Read MoreTIFF 2023 Review: One Life – “It is in the flashbacks where the story excels”
British stockbroker Sir. Nicholas Winton remains haunted by his time spent in Prague to evacuate refugee children from the expansion of...
Read MoreTIFF 2023 Review: Bad Boy – “Compelling performance”
After his mother reports him to the police, teenage Dean gets sent away to a brutal juvenile detention facility which lays the foundation...
Read MoreTIFF 2023 Review: Flora and Son – “Warms your soul and brings you comfort.”
Sometimes all you want is a nice movie. The sort that warms your soul and brings you comfort. If you’re on the hunt for such a...
Read MoreTIFF 2023 Review: Memory – “Quiet and tender”
Back in 2020, covering the Toronto International Film Festival from home, I watched a film that left me wide-eyed, mouth open, not...
Read MoreTIFF 2023 Review: The Teacher’s Lounge – “A well-crafted film”
“Truth overcomes all bonds. Everything else is just PR.” Those words that adorn the walls of the school paper are fitting, if not slightly...
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