By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Stephen Chbosky’s big screen take on Dear Evan Hansen, the Broadway musical with songs by Benji Pasek and Justin Paul that swept the Tonys in 2017, is a pretty good stage to screen adaptation. Even if the material is not quite as impactful onscreen as it was onstage,… Read More #TIFF21 Review: Dear Evan Hansen (Gala Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) A new short film written, directed and produced by Canadian filmmaker Albert Shin, Together focuses on two anonymous strangers, a younger woman (Ahn So Yo) and an older man (Kim Jae-Rok), who meet up in a motel room by the sea in South Korea. Shin made this film… Read More #TIFF21 Review: Together (Short Cuts)