The Luckiest Man In America: TIFF 2024 Review
David Strathairn and Shamier Anderson are the standouts of game show drama The Luckiest Man In America.
The Piano Lesson: TIFF 2024 Review
While The Piano Lesson delivers strong performances and stays true to Wilson's play, it might not leave a lasting impression.
Really Happy Someday: TIFF 2024 Review
J Stevens’ directorial feature debut Really Happy Someday follows a musical theater performer who must reckon with a changing voice one year into taking testosterone.
Universal Language: TIFF 2024 Review
Universal Language, a delightfully clever offbeat comedy, and probably Rankin's most accessible film to date, is ingeniously deceptive in its strategies. That’s only part of its charm.
I, the Executioner: TIFF 2024 Review
I, the Executioner, a worthy successor to Veteran, upping the ante with more intense action sequences and a darker tone.
Oh, Canada: TIFF 2024 Review
Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada is a sombre drama about a dying filmmaker whose legacy outshines his integrity.
Speak No Evil Review
James McAvoy astounds with a riveting performance, but was this horror remake necessary?
Mother Mother: TIFF 2024 Review
One of the pleasant surprises of the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival, Mother Mother offers a riveting and intimate portrait of motherhood, grief, and forgiveness.
40 Acres: TIFF 2024 Review
A plague has wiped out 98% of the world’s animal population, leading to death and civil war. With food scarce and capitalist institutions collapsed, farmland has become the most valuable resource. Something a select few have and many would kill to obtain. It is in this post-apocalyptic setting that director R.T. Thorne’s thrilling feature debut 40 Acres takes place.
Village Keeper: TIFF 2024 Review
Village Keeper is a powerful and compassionate exploration of a woman’s journey toward healing while balancing life’s setbacks with moments of beauty and joy.
Saturday Night: TIFF 2024 Review
Saturday Night delivers a stressful portrayal of the lead-up to SNL’s premiere, immersing viewers in Lorne Michaels’ high-skates struggles.
On a Sunday at Eleven: TIFF 2024 Review
The TIFF short follows a young ballerina as she faces the pressures to conform to a Eurocentric standard of beauty.
Sharp Corner: TIFF 2024 Review
The line between preparedness and obsession is a fine one in Jason Buxton’s Sharp Corner, starring Ben Foster and Cobie Smulders. The Nova Scotia-shot drama watches a family man's very ordinary and mundane life crumble before him as his obsession about car accidents in his front yard take over his life.
Without Blood: TIFF 2024 Review
Angelina Jolie's Without Blood proves a gripping revenge thriller about the cyclical nature of violence.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl: TIFF 2024 Review
A masterful exploration of the secrets that eat away at a family like termites devouring wood, Nyoni creates a mosaic of emotions that is at times amusing, claustrophobic, and utterly heartbreaking. A brilliant work on every level, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl is one of the year’s best works.
