By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Bruce Springsteen’s latest album, Western Stars, is an introspective, often bittersweet concept album of sorts that tells the story of a fading Western movie star, and finds the iconic American rocker branching out to country music and performing with a thirty piece orchestra. Not intending to go on… Read More #TIFF19 Review: Western Stars (Gala Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest social realist drama from veteran filmmaker Ken Loach, Sorry We Missed You explores many of the same themes of systemic poverty and the struggles faced by those who aren’t at the top of the economic ladder as his Palme d’Or-winning previous film I, Daniel Blake. This… Read More #TIFF19 Review: Sorry We Missed You (Masters)

By John Corrado ★ (out of 4) The feature directorial debut of Noah Hawley, who is best known for his work on the shows Fargo and Legion, Lucy in the Sky is a complete misfire, and watching it feels like being trapped in space. After returning from two weeks in space, astronaut Lucy Cola (Natalie Portman)… Read More #TIFF19 Review: Lucy in the Sky (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Set in the 1950s in New York, Motherless Brooklyn follows Lionel Essrog (Edward Norton), a private detective with Tourette syndrome. He twitches and tics, his mind obsessing over certain phrases and making him repeat them, but he also has an incredible ability to retain information and never forgets… Read More #TIFF19 Review: Motherless Brooklyn (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) is an all-American teenager who has the façade of a perfect life. He’s on his high school’s wrestling team, and has a steady girlfriend, Alexis (Alexa Demie). But his father (Sterling K. Brown) pushes him a little too hard, keeping him on a gruelling… Read More #TIFF19 Review: Waves (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) On the night that he finally comes out to his parents, high schooler Tunde Johnson (Steven Silver) is driving to his boyfriend Soren’s (Spencer Neville) birthday party, when he is shot and killed by police during a traffic stop. Then he wakes up in his own bed, and… Read More #TIFF19 Review: The Obituary of Tunde Johnson (Discovery)