By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7th to 17th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Tautuktavuk (What We See) is a unique hybrid film from co-directors Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk born out of the COVID-19 pandemic, that unfolds with… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Tautuktavuk (What We See) (Discovery)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7th to 17th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. In her second feature Fitting In, Canadian writer-director Molly McGlynn (Mary Goes Round) shows how to handle sensitive subject matter in an often humorous but still… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Fitting In (Centrepiece)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7th to 17th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Expanded from an underground musical comedy act that co-writers Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp used to perform together in New York, Dicks: The Musical finds Borat… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Dicks: The Musical (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7th to 17th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Jeffrey Wright stars in American Fiction as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, but it’s not what you think; this is in no way a biopic of the… Read More #TIFF23 Review: American Fiction (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7th to 17th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The title of Backspot refers to the position Riley (Devery Jacobs) holds on her high school cheerleading team. She treats cheerleading like an extreme sport,… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Backspot (Discovery)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7th to 17th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The phrase “Dumb Money” comes from how Wall Street fat cats refer to the money they make off poor investments by average folks who lose… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Dumb Money (Gala Presentations)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7th to 17th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The debut feature from Toronto-born director M. H. Murray, I Don’t Know Who You Are is an anxiety-inducing drama that primarily takes place in the… Read More #TIFF23 Review: I Don’t Know Who You Are (Discovery)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7th to 17th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. An older man wakes up in the morning and gets ready for work. He tenderly mists his houseplants before leaving his modest home, and listens… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Perfect Days (Centrepiece)
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7th to 17th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Did the husband fall, or was he pushed? That’s the question at the centre of Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall, an absorbing courtroom… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Anatomy of a Fall (Special Presentations)
By John Corrado It’s that time of year again. The Toronto International Film Festival is upon us, with this year’s 48th edition running from September 7th to 17th. You can keep it right here for all of my TIFF coverage, including reviews of some of the major titles at this year’s fest. This post will… Read More Welcome to #TIFF23! (Review Directory)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Asteroid City. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. The latest feature from writer-director Wes Anderson – and one of the best movies of the year, so far – Asteroid City… Read More Blu-ray Review: Asteroid City
By John Corrado New releases for the week of September 1st, 2023. Theatrical Release: Bottoms (Limited Release): Bottoms, director Emma Seligman’s follow up to her debut film Shiva Baby, is a high school comedy following socially awkward best friends PJ (Shiva Baby breakout Rachel Sennott) and Josie (Ayo Edibiri), who start a female fight club… Read More New This Week (09/01/2023): Bottoms, The Equalizer 3, & More!
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 25th, 2023. Theatrical Releases: Dreamin’ Wild (Limited Release): This new music drama from writer-director Bill Pohlad tells the true story of brothers Donnie (Casey Affleck) and Joe Emerson (Walton Goggins), who are thrust into the limelight when the album they recorded as teenagers gets reissued.… Read More New This Week (08/25/2023): Dreamin’ Wild, Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story, & More!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The title of Dreamin’ Wild, the new music drama from writer-director Bill Pohlad, comes from the name of an album first recorded by teenage brothers Donnie and Joe Emerson on their rural Washington farm in the late 1970s. The album flew under the radar, before finding unexpected success… Read More Review: Dreamin’ Wild
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 18th, 2023. Theatrical Releases: Strays (Wide Release): Will Ferrell stars in the R-rated talking dog comedy Strays as the voice of a little dog named Reggie who teams up with a streetwise Boston Terrier (voiced by Jamie Foxx) to get revenge on his mean owner… Read More New This Week (08/18/2023): Strays, Jules, The Eternal Memory, Mutt, & More!
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Ben Kingsley stars in the film Jules as Milton Robinson, an aging eccentric who befriends an alien that crash lands in his backyard, and invites the humanoid creature into his home out of loneliness and isolation. This results in an odd but mostly weirdly endearing little film that… Read More Review: Jules
By John Corrado In honour of the film’s milestone 70th anniversary this year, Paramount has given a 4K Ultra HD upgrade to filmmaker William Wyler’s 1951 classic Roman Holiday, starring the incomparable pair of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Shot on location in Rome, Wyler’s film captures the vibrancy of a post-war Italy, built around… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Roman Holiday: 70th Anniversary
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Fast X is the tenth entry in the Fast and Furious saga (the eleventh if you count the spin-off film Hobbs & Shaw), and at this point the series has fully embraced its status as offering little more than brainless entertainment fuelled by fast cars and hot stars.… Read More Blu-ray Review: Fast X (Collector’s Edition)
By John Corrado New releases for the week of August 11th, 2023. Theatrical Releases: Passages (TIFF Bell Lightbox): This latest human drama from American indie film director Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, Little Men) charts the sexually charged, emotionally messy dynamics around a self-absorbed young filmmaker (Franz Rogowski) who cheats on his husband (Ben Whishaw) with… Read More New This Week (08/11/2023): Passages, The Beasts, Satan Wants You, & More!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The Spanish-French thriller The Beasts (As Bestas), which premiered at Cannes last year, follows a French couple living in the Galician countryside who end up clashing up against the locals. Antoine (Denis Ménochet) and his wife Olga (Marina Foïs) are older expatriates from France who have set up… Read More Review: The Beasts
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