By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Directed by Sam Pollard, the extensively researched documentary MLK/FBI sheds light on FBI director J. Edgar Hoover’s obsessive quest to take down Martin Luther King Jr., viewing the non-violent civil rights leader as a threat to the national order. Using the powers afforded to him at the Federal… Read More #TIFF20 Review: MLK/FBI (TIFF Docs)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) A swooning, tragic romance that unfolds on the coast of Normandy and is set against the perfect backdrop of the 1980s, director François Ozon’s queer melodrama Summer of 85 is a film that won’t work for everyone, but it really worked for me. When we first meet teenaged… Read More #TIFF20 Review: Summer of 85 (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) A Mohawk girl comes of age against the backdrop of the Oka Crisis in Beans, a drama that reimagines the 1990 showdown between several levels of police and Indigenous land protectors from two Quebec Mohawk communities, who were trying to stop the town of Oka’s planned expansion of… Read More #TIFF20 Review: Beans (Discovery)
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