By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Satire is a tricky thing to properly pull off, but New Zealand actor and filmmaker Taika Waititi succeeds in his latest film Jojo Rabbit, an original and daring World War II satire that is equal parts funny and moving. The main character is Jojo Betzler (Roman Griffin Davis),… Read More #TIFF19 Review: Jojo Rabbit (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Set in Newfoundland in the 1980s, Black Conflux follows both a teenaged girl named Jackie (Ella Ballentine), who is navigating the world of high school, and a mentally unstable young man named Dennis (Ryan McDonald), who works in a brewery and has trouble with women. Jackie has started… Read More #TIFF19 Review: Black Conflux (Discovery)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Yuma (Mei Kayama) is a 23-year-old woman with cerebral palsy in Tokyo, who dreams of being recognized as a manga artist. But the work that she does gets taken by Sayaka (Minori Hagiwara), a blogger who passes it off as her own and has gained a massive following.… Read More #TIFF19 Review: 37 Seconds (Contemporary World Cinema)
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