By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Inspired by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s novella The Sorrows of Young Werther which caused quite the stir in the late-1700s, Toronto filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço’s easily enjoyable feature… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Young Werther (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The latest quasi-experimental genre-bender from Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin and co-directors Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson, Rumours is a mix of bizarre fever dream and political satire that pits the… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Rumours (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Set in a small fishing village in Newfoundland, writer-director Melanie Oates crafts a sort of modern day “Scarlet Letter” in her new film Sweet Angel Baby. Michaela Kurimsky stars… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Sweet Angel Baby (Centrepiece)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. German filmmaker Edward Berger last exceeded expectations with his 2022 remake All Quiet on the Western Front, a gripping adaptation that went on to win four Oscars. Now Berger follows… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Conclave (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Fabian Stumm is the writer, director and star of Sad Jokes, and he uses his impeccably dry comedic voice to craft a German dramedy that uses long takes to… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Sad Jokes (Discovery)
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