By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Pawel Pawlikowski’s tragic post-World War II romance Cold War is a deeply personal film for the Oscar-nominated Polish director, as the story is based on the European love affair between his own parents. The film unfolds over fifteen years, and charts the on-again, off-again love affair between Wiktor… Read More Review: Cold War
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) A black and white homage to the Mexico of his youth and the women who raised him, Alfonso Caurón’s Roma is a beautiful and haunting work of art, that serves as the filmmaker’s first Spanish language film since Y Tu Mamá También in 2001. The film unfolds through the… Read More Review: Roma
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Dreams, memories and cinema collide in Chinese director Bi Gan’s second feature Long Day’s Journey Into Night, a hypnotic and transfixing neo-noir that eschews a traditional narrative structure in favour of deep symbolism and metaphor. The film follows Luo Hongwu (Huang Jue), a man who returns to his… Read More #TIFF18 Review: Long Day’s Journey Into Night
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Marina (Daniela Vega) is a transwoman in Chile, who is dating the much older man Orlando (Francisco Reyes). When Orlando suddenly falls ill and dies while they are together, his family starts to place the blame on Marina, barring her from coming to the funeral service, driven by… Read More Review: A Fantastic Woman
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Thelma (Eili Harboe) is a university student who is trying to get away from her fundamentalist parents (Henrik Rafaelsen and Ellen Dorrit Peterson), having moved away from home to live on campus and study in Oslo. But when she starts having mysterious fainting spells, and also comes to… Read More Review: Thelma
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Taking place in Japan during World War II, In This Corner of the World follows Suzu (Laura Post), a young woman who leaves her childhood home in Hiroshima to get married, and moves to the nearby city of Kure to live with her husband Shusaku (Todd Haberkorn) and… Read More Blu-ray Review: In This Corner of the World
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest from Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, and the winner of this year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes, The Square is an entertaining satire of the post-modern art world, that holds nothing back in its sendup of the pretentious and often ridiculous things that are celebrated within the contemporary art scene.… Read More Review: The Square
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) While countless horror movies about demonic possession, including The Exorcist and The Omen, have become staples to watch around this time of year, the documentary Libera Nos provides a chilling companion piece to these Halloween classics. This is an “inspired by true events” horror movie in the most literal… Read More Review: Libera Nos
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) Agnes Varda is one of the most influential filmmakers from the French New Wave, and JR is a young street photographer. He is young, and she is old, but they are able to see eye to eye on many things and they share a similar artistic spirit. Together,… Read More Review: Faces Places
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Already the highest grossing anime film of all-time, and a giant blockbuster hit in its native Japan, Your Name is finally arriving in North American theatres, and I’m happy to report that the film deserves every bit of the hype that has been surrounding it for months now. This… Read More Review: Your Name
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The latest from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar, Julieta is adapted from a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro, that follows the title character at two stages in her life. We first meet Julieta as a middle-aged woman (Emma Suárez), who receives word on her estranged daughter after… Read More Blu-ray Review: Julieta
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) The opening scene of Elle will test your tolerance for everything that comes after. Michèle Leblanc (Isabelle Huppert) lies on the floor of her house screaming, with her clothes torn, legs bloodied and broken dishes surrounding her head, as a masked intruder brutally rapes her. A grey cat… Read More Blu-ray Review: Elle
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Aishoplan Nurgaiv is a thirteen year old girl in Mongolia who dreams of being an eagle hunter, a tradition in their nomadic community that is usually passed down from fathers to sons. But with the help of her father, who believes that girls can do anything boys can do, Aishoplan… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Eagle Huntress
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) After being forced to flee their Tehran apartment due to sudden construction that threatens to topple the building, Emad (Shabab Hosseini) and his wife Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) take out a lease on a shabby new room. But the old tenant refuses to remove her stuff, and when an incident… Read More Review: The Salesman
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