By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5th to 15th, more information can be found right here. The latest film from Indonesian action filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto (Headshot, The Night Comes for Us), The Shadow Strays is a totally insane and highly stylized action flick. Right from the opening sequence laying waste… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Shadow Strays (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5th to 15th, more information can be found right here. Director Nick Toti’s It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This is a found footage horror movie that definitely works best as a midnight experience shared with an audience. The filmmaker has stated that… Read More #TIFF24 Review: It Doesn’t Get Any Better Than This (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5th to 15th, more information can be found right here. Former music video director Joseph Kahn follows up his raucous 2017 battle rap satire Bodied with Ick; a sci-fi horror comedy that serves as homage to stereotypical early-2000s high school movies, starring Brandon… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Ick (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 5th to 15th, more information on tickets and showtimes can be found right here. Bird is another gritty, slice-of-life drama from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold, that also feels like a bit of a diversion. It is recognizably of a piece with her previous… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Bird (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. In their latest film The Friend, co-directors David Siegel and Scott McGehee adapt Sigrid Nunez’s novel about a woman coming to terms with the complex relationship she had with an… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Friend (Gala 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. Directed by Dito Montiel, Riff Raff is an enjoyable dark comedy that mostly just lets its all-star comic cast (including the likes of Jennifer Coolidge, Bill Murray, and Pete Davidson)… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Riff Raff (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. Emilia Pérez, the latest film from French director Jacques Audiard, is a mix of many things; it’s a pop musical, Mexican melodrama, love story, and cartel crime thriller. It’s a… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Emilia Pérez (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 film directed by The Greatest Showman’s Michael Gracey, Better Man is a biopic of British pop star Robbie Williams, from his boy band days to his solo career.… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Better Man (Gala 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. Luca Guadagnino’s Queer finds the filmmaker interpreting the work of author William S. Burroughs. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Burroughs, which follows its… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Queer (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 feature directorial debut of writer-director Andrew DeYoung, Friendship is a cringe comedy about adult male friendship that fully leans into the absurd. Tim Robinson stars in the film as… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Friendship (Midnight Madness)
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. In his latest film Saturday Night, director Jason Reitman uses a massive and spot-on ensemble cast to meticulously recreate the frantic ninety minutes leading up to the first taping of… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Saturday Night (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. Denzel Washington continues to help shepherd August Wilson’s stage plays to the screen with The Piano Lesson, this time producing the film while his youngest son Malcolm Washington takes over… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Piano Lesson (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 vaguely experimental thriller from director Steven Soderbergh, following his self-imposed “retirement” from filmmaking, Presence is a haunted house movie shown from the perspective of the ghost. And it’s… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Presence (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. The Wild Robot is the latest animated film from DreamWorks, and it’s one of the best movies the studio has ever produced. In adapting the children’s novel by author Peter… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Wild Robot (Gala 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 third film from director Brady Corbet (Vox Lux, The Childhood of a Leader), The Brutalist fully cements him as the real deal. The film itself is the grandest of… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Brutalist (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 most basic descriptions of Nightbitch will probably be “that movie where Amy Adams is turning into a dog.” While partially reductive, these descriptions are also sort of correct; but… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Nightbitch (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. Léo (Pier-Luc Funk) is a lonely pizza delivery driver in Montreal, who becomes the latest target of John (François Papineau), an alien posing as an older cab driver, who… Read More #TIFF24 Review: You Are Not Alone (Discovery)
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. Jean (Olunike Adeliyi) is a single mother who is back living with her own elderly mother (Maxine Simpson), raising two teenaged kids Tamika (Zahra Bentham) and Tristin (Micah Mensah-Jatoe) in… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Village Keeper (Discovery)
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. In his latest film The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof crafts a layered and unsettling portrait of life in modern day Iran. It’s a film deemed… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (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. Joshua Oppenheimer is a filmmaker who has explored the dark side of human capabilities in his staggering documentaries The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, a pair of… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The End (Special Presentations)
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