Category: Film Festivals

#TIFF23 Review: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Centrepiece)

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. What happens when a vampire develops a conscience and doesn’t want to kill? This is the predicament facing Sasha (Sara Montpetit), a teenaged vampire in… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Centrepiece)

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#TIFF23 Review: The Zone of Interest (Special 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. Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest (which was awarded the Grand Prix at Cannes), is a transcendent meditation on the capacity for regular people to carry… Read More #TIFF23 Review: The Zone of Interest (Special Presentations)

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#TIFF23 Review: Tautuktavuk (What We See) (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. 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)

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#TIFF23 Review: Fitting In (Centrepiece)

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)

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#TIFF23 Review: Dicks: The Musical (Midnight Madness)

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)

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#TIFF23 Review: American Fiction (Special 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. 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)

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#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 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)

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#TIFF23 Review: I Don’t Know Who You Are (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 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)

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#TIFF23 Review: Anatomy of a Fall (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. 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)

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The 2023 Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival starts tonight!

By John Corrado The 2023 edition of the Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival starts tonight, and runs until June 4th, with a mix of in-person screenings at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto and some online viewing options. I will be publishing reviews throughout the festival, and below is a preview of some films I’m looking… Read More The 2023 Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival starts tonight!

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#HotDocs23 Review: Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?

By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Hot Docs Film Festival ran from April 27th to May 7th in Toronto, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. The documentary Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law? offers a solid introduction to pro-democracy activist Nathan Law, as it provides an engaging overview of… Read More #HotDocs23 Review: Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law?

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