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 mumblecore-inspired Toronto indie from micro-budget filmmaker Kazik Radwanski, Matt and Mara captures the rhythms of a unique dynamic between two old friends. Matt (Matt Johnson) and Mara (Deragh… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Matt and Mara (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. Issa (Ibrahima Sambou), the central character in director Milad Tangshir’s stripped down drama, is an undocumented Senegalese migrant trying to scrape by in Turin, Italy. Thanks to a friend (Moussa… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Anywhere Anytime (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. It takes a filmmaker like Francis Ford Coppola to pull off something as audacious as Megalopolis, the Godfather and Apocalypse Now director’s self-financed, $120 million epic that he has been… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Megalopolis (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. 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)
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 her latest film The Last Showgirl, director Gia Coppola (granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola) gives a starring role to model and actress Pamela Anderson, fittingly casting her as an… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Last Showgirl (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 debut of Ryan Cooper and Eva Thomas, who serve as co-writers and co-directors, Aberdeen is a mix of slice-of-life portrait and more serious melodrama. The film is named… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Aberdeen (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. The Life of Chuck finds director Mike Flanagan crafting another Stephen King adaptation, following his The Shining sequel Doctor Sleep. Whatever you are expecting from Flanagan, best known for his… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Life of Chuck (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 his narrative feature debut Shook, Canadian documentary filmmaker Amar Wala (The Secret Trial 5) crafts a character dramedy that is set in Scarborough. While the Toronto suburb has historically… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Shook (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. Director Tallulah H. Schwab’s sophomore feature Mr. K is an absurdist tale set inside an old hotel that draws from obvious cinematic sources like The Shining, Barton Fink and Holy… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Mr. K (Platform)
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 from Irish director John Crowley (Brooklyn), We Live in Time mostly works as a genuine romantic tear-jerker, centred around a young couple in London. Tobias (Andrew Garfield)… Read More #TIFF24 Review: We Live in Time (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 her latest film Paying For It, Toronto filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee crafts a tender adaptation of her former partner Chester Brown’s autobiographical 2011 graphic novel of the same name,… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Paying for It (Platform)
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. Do I Know You From Somewhere?, the debut feature from New Brunswick filmmaker Arianna Martinez, aims to capture that slippery, elusive feeling that you are pulling away from someone. And… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Do I Know You From Somewhere? (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. Seeds is an Indigenous B-movie thriller that serves as the feature directorial debut of actress Kaniehtiio Horn, who also wrote and stars in the film. Horn plays Ziggy, an Indigenous woman… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Seeds (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. Nutcrackers, the opening night film of this year’s TIFF, finds director David Gordon Green sort of returning to his more indie movie roots, following his forays into horror franchise filmmaking… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Nutcrackers (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. After breaking out with his iPhone-shot Tangerine, Sean Baker has become one of our best modern filmmakers, gifting us exceptional, singular works like The Florida Project and Red Rocket. Now Baker returns with Anora, which… Read More #TIFF24 Review: Anora (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 her showbiz sendup The Substance, writer-director Coralie Fargeat (Revenge) crafts her own bloody take on The Picture of Dorian Gray, mixing extreme body horror and absurd satire of… Read More #TIFF24 Review: The Substance (Midnight Madness)
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