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)
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)
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