CUFF 2021: Laughter Review
Laughter's talented cast can't save the film from its own tedious philosophizing, resulting in a tiresome—at times, unpleasant—watch.
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Slamdance 2021: No Trace Review
The latest from Quebecois auteur (or "Auteur") Simon Lavoie.
Nadia, Butterfly Review: Life in a Fishbowl
Pascal Plante's second dramatic features stars Katerine Savard as an Olympic swinner imagining life after sports.
Berlin 2020: Goddess of the Fireflies Review
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette’s coming-of-age drama proves that Kelly Depeault is an actor to watch.
Matthias & Maxime Review
Xavier Dolan's Matthias & Maxime is easily his sexiest film yet, and also one of his strongest.
The Fireflies Are Gone Review
Quebecois films are difficult to catch in Toronto these days, so it’s worth acting quickly to see Sébastien Pilote’s richly understated drama The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) while it's at TIFF.
Ghost Town Anthology Review
Denis Côté’s Ghost Town Anthology is an unsettling mood piece that replaces thrills with intrigue, shrouding itself in an eerie, enigmatic narrative.
Parental Guidance: Alita: Battle Angel
Alita: Battle Angel fights her way into theatres this weekend. Based on a manga, it’s chock-full of cool fight sequences set in a gritty dystopian future. But should you take your kids to see it?
Contest: See ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver!
That Shelf wants to send you and a friend to advance screenings of Alita: Battle Angel in Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal – courtesy of our friends at 20th Century Fox!
TIFF 2015: Demolition Review
Demolition TIFF 2015 review
The Frozen Wedding
History and fantasy combine when Game of Thrones takes over Quebec's Hotel de Glace.
French Immersion Review
Sometimes it pains me to say when a film is an unwatchable mess. Films like French Immersion have an incredible amount of talent in front of the camera and behind it. It is supposed to be a comedy about the differences between English and French speaking Canada, but instead it’s a soul-sucking train wreck full of punchlines so misguided they would make Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy think twice. Sickeningly unfunny and dreadfully “Canadian,” Tierney’s film strikes out on almost every conceivable level.
EFM 2011: Good Neighbours Review
Jacob Tierney’s third feature film, Good Neighbours, adds a distinctly Canadian twist on a classic Hitchcock-style thriller, envisioning a cold, claustrophobic world in which no one can be either trusted or in many ways resisted. Set in 1995 during the Quebec referendum, the film spies on three Anglophone residents of an apartment block who try to find friendship merely through proximity and language.
