By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Filmmaker Barry Levinson returns to the big screen with The Survivor, a biopic of Holocaust survivor turned boxer Harry Haft, who is played extremely well in the film by Ben Foster, delivering one of the finest performances of his career. The screenplay by Justine Juel Gillmer focuses on Haft… Read More #TIFF21 Review: The Survivor (Gala Presentations)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest animated film from Waltz With Bashir filmmaker Ari Folman, Where is Anne Frank is a valuable and often moving animated history lesson that draws parallels between past and present discrimination. The film serves as an adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank, but it takes a… Read More #TIFF21 Review: Where is Anne Frank (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Directed by Eric Warin and Tahir Rana, Charlotte is an animated biopic of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon (voiced by Keira Knightley), whose magnum opus was a biography in pictures titled Life? Or Theatre? painted during World War II, that is often credited as being the first graphic novel.… Read More #TIFF21 Review: Charlotte (Special Presentations)
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