short film
Sophy Romvari's latest short film It's What Each Person Needs blends documentary and drama with its portrait of an online companion.
Hot Docs: This is Endometriosis Review
An image of a shadow on a wall—moving slowly with the light across the room—speaks deeply to a feeling of lost hours and days that most, if not all, those suffering from endometriosis can relate to. I know I do. Short film This is Endometriosis, playing as a part of this year’s Hot Docs slate, […]
The Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts: Is Riz the Winner?
Review of the Oscar-nominated live action shorts The Long Goodbye, Please Hold, The Dress, On My Mind, and Ala Kachuu - Take and Run.
The Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts: Dark, but Daring
Review of the 2022 Oscar-nominated Animated Shorts including Boxballet, Affairs of the Art, Robin Robin, Bestia, and Windshield Wiper.
TIFF 2021: Together Review
Albert Shin's latest film explores the high suicide rates in South Korea by focusing on human connections and the beauty of life.
TIFF 2021: DEFUND Review
DEFUND uses levity to reclaim the true meaning of the "Defund the Police" movement.
Oscar-Nominated Live Action Shorts Review: The Present for the Win!
The Present gets our critics vote among the Oscar nominees.
Sundance 2021: Black Bodies Review
Director Kelly Fyffe-Marshall's short is a brief but potent statement on contemporary race relations.
Inside Out 2020: Warm Blood Shorts Review
If anyone knows the power of a monster in the closet, it’s the gays.
NYFF Dispatch II: The Human Voice Review
A new Pedro Almodóvar film is always cause for celebration. Even a short one, especially one that so carefully harkens back and deepens, in turn, the Spanish director’s longstanding fascinations. The Human Voice, starring Tilda Swinton and “freely based” on Jean Cocteau’s 1928 play by the same name, is pure Almodóvar. It’s both a potent […]
The Shawl Review: Sundance 2020
Sara Keiner's film is a tale of love and Stevie Nicks.
The Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films Are Top Shelf
Includes links to three of the nominees!
TADFF 2019: Alaska Review
Social anxiety makes for a macabre and hilarious combo in the TADFF 2019 short Alaska.
TADFF 2019: Best Friends Forever Review
Teenage girls are pretty scary in the TADFF short film Best Friends Forever.
TIFF 2019: The Physics of Sorrow Review
TIFF 2019: The Physics of Sorrow Review