By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest from writer-director Nicole Holofcener, this time working from a book by Ted Thompson, The Land of Steady Habits centres on Anders Hill (Ben Mendelsohn), a middle aged man who divorced his wife (Edie Falco) and retired from his job in finance in an attempt to reinvent… Read More #TIFF18 Review: The Land of Steady Habits

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Based on Garrard Conley’s memoir of the same name, Boy Erased focuses on Jared (Lucas Hedges), a young man who gets outed at college, and is sent by his Baptist preacher father (Russell Crowe) to a gay conversion camp run by the “ex-gay” councillor Victor Sykes (Joel Edgerton).… Read More #TIFF18 Review: Boy Erased

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Damian Chazelle follows up his Oscar-winnings films Whiplash and La La Land with First Man, a space race drama that follows Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) over seven years as he prepares to become the first man to walk on the moon. The film charts his journey from his… Read More #TIFF18 Review: First Man

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) For his directorial debut, Bradley Cooper has delivered the third remake of A Star is Born, following the 1937 original which received new iterations in 1954 and 1976, and the results are pretty great. This time around, the story involves Jackson Maine (Cooper), a washed up country star… Read More #TIFF18 Review: A Star is Born