TIFF 50 Review: Hamnet
I haven't read the original novel at the time of watching the film and typing out this review - perhaps someday I should. But the story regarding the creation of…
I haven't read the original novel at the time of watching the film and typing out this review - perhaps someday I should. But the story regarding the creation of…
Park-Chan wook does his own take on the Parasite-type thriller with No Other Choice. Thrillers involving main characters doing whatever it takes for their family to survive and rise up…
Miroirs No. 3 hits all the notes you'd expect from a Christian Petzold movie. You've got the doppelganger stuff from movies like Phoenix, plus it's not Petzold without a good…
I decided on this film knowing not very much about it other than a few friends of mine being excited about some of the names involved - many of whom…
This was one of my most anticipated films for this year's TIFF, considering how wonderful Takahide Hori's debut feature-length movie Junk Head was. A great piece of stop motion animation…
I have a lot of respect and admiration for Claire Denis as a filmmaker and an artist. Given her pedigree and the films she's made over the years, who wouldn't?…
I decided to watch this knowing nothing about director Sergei Loznitsa's previous work. It had gotten some buzz at Cannes when it premiered there, and it received rave reviews from…
I saw The Brutalist during last year's TIFF in 70mm which was quite the treat, so when they announced there was another movie involving the same duo but with Mona…
It's not too often that you get slow cinema that feels this grand and epic in scope. Such is the case with Magellan, which admittedly is my first experience with…
Mythical and epic is how I would describe this new take on the Frankenstein story by none other than Guillermo del Toro. Massive set pieces, grand costumes and even a…