TIFF 2023: Lee Review
Lee, starring Kate Winslet, more than succeeds in its most important mission: Ensuring ground-breaking war correspondent Lee Miller finally gets her due.
Marion Cotillard
Cannes 2021: Annette Review
Our Cannes 2021 review of Leos Carax's latest ANNETTE – starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard – does it live up to the iconoclastic filmmaker's previous efforts?
Assassin’s Creed Review
With Assassin’s Creed, Ubisoft has demonstrated the ability to make a competent film, but it utterly fails to recognize what it is that people like about its signature franchise.
Contest: See Allied in Select Cities
Allied opens across Canada November 23rd, but you can attend an advanced screening courtesy of Paramount Pictures and Dork Shelf on November 21st in Toronto or Montreal.
TIFF 2016: It’s Only The End of the World Review
It's Only the End of the World TIFF 2016 Review.
Two Days, One Night Review
Marion Cotillard and the Dardennes deliver an emotionally wrenching and truthful modern commentary with Two Days, One Night, a drama that moves like a thriller.
CONTEST: See TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT in TORONTO!
Enter for a chance to win run-of-engagement passes to see Two Days, One Night at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, courtesy of Dork Shelf and Mongrel Media.
TFCA Announces 2014 Award Winners
Led by Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actress winner Boyhood, the Toronto Film Critics Association has announced their award winners for the best of film in 2014.
TIFF 2014: Two Days, One Night Review
Two Days One Night Special Presentations Two Days, One Night, the latest film by Jean and Luc Dardenne, has one of those tidy premises that lends itself well to a concise pitch: a woman has one weekend to convince coworkers to give up their bonuses so that she may keep her job. To expand on […]
Rust and Bone Review
There are moments and certainly performances within Rust and Bone that flat out demand attention and praise. Yet somehow, those little pieces never add up to anything more than very well made melodramatic twaddle.
TIFF 2012 Reviews: Part 1
With the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival kicking off this Thursday, Dork Shelf begins their coverage of the Festival of Festivals with our look at Dredd 3D, The Sessions, Krivina, Rust and Bone, I Declare War, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, and the huge opening night gala, Looper.
The Dark Knight Rises Review
An appropriate end to the Christopher Nolan cycle of serious Batman films, The Dark Knight Rises manages to up the stakes in terms of action, suspense, and even in terms of wit. On the other hand, it’s not hard to say that this third instalment with Christian Bale behind the cowl is the least of the franchise, but most of the problems this time our are fairly nitpicky in nature and come mostly when Nolan seemingly needs to force himself to get serious again when even the director seems like he just wants to have some actual fun for a change.
Contagion Review
Director Steven Soderbergh takes on a deadly viral outbreak in his latest film, Contagion, with the same episodic story structure that he employed when he took on the war on drugs in Traffic. What this means is that Contagion is a very well made and often fascinating film that feels longer than it really is and it forgets about most of its characters at fairly inopportune times. The two films could really play side by side as a double bill of Soderbergh procedurals. They have almost the exact same strengths and the exact same faults.
