By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8th to 18th. Empire of Light, the latest film from writer-director Sam Mendes, is a solid period piece that also serves as a very personal work from the British filmmaker. It’s set in a seaside town in the 1980s,… Read More #TIFF22 Review: Empire of Light (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8th to 18th. Sally Hawkins stars in The Lost King as Philippa Langley, a writer in England living with ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome) who has hit a wall in her life, with an ex-husband (Steve Coogan)… Read More #TIFF22 Review: The Lost King (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado ★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8th to 18th. The directorial debut of actress Sanaa Lathan, On the Come Up is a frustratingly mediocre high school drama centred around an aspiring rapper. The film is based on a novel by Angie Thomas, who also wrote… Read More #TIFF22 Review: On the Come Up (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8th to 18th. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans is an autobiographical work that finds the filmmaker at his most introspective, drawing upon experiences from his own childhood. And it’s magical. As someone who grew up obsessed with Spielberg and his… Read More #TIFF22 Review: The Fabelmans (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8th to 18th. Directed by Danish filmmaker Tobias Lindholm, a frequent collaborator of Thomas Vinterberg who co-wrote The Hunt and Another Round, The Good Nurse is a surprisingly solid Netflix serial killer thriller that is different than expected, but… Read More #TIFF22 Review: The Good Nurse (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8th to 18th. Directed by Richard Eyre, and based on a 2018 stage play by Alan Bennett that has been adapted for the screen by Heidi Thomas, the British film Allelujah follows various staff and patients at the Bethlehem… Read More #TIFF22 Review: Allelujah (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8th to 18th. Jennifer Lawrence makes a long-awaited return to more indie roles in Causeway, portraying a soldier returning from Afghanistan with a traumatic brain injury. She delivers a stripped down performance that recalls her earlier work, but the… Read More #TIFF22 Review: Causeway (Special Presentations)

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2022 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 8th to 18th. The title of Sisu, the latest from Finnish genre filmmaker Jalmari Helander (whose previous films Rare Exports and Big Game have become cult classics), comes from a hard to translate word that essentially means a form… Read More #TIFF22 Review: Sisu (Midnight Madness)