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. Anna Kendrick makes her directorial debut with Woman of the Hour (which just sold to Netflix for a cool $11 million), a based-on-a-true-story serial killer thriller… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Woman of the Hour (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. A dialogue-free animated film about the friendship between a dog and his robot set in 1980s New York, director Pablo Berger’s delightful new feature Robot Dreams… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Robot Dreams (Centrepiece)
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. In his twentieth feature Fallen Leaves, Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki crafts a gently humorous and very heartfelt film that has the feel of a classic screen… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Fallen Leaves (Centrepiece)
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. The latest from Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda (following last year’s Korea-set Broker), Monster is a simmering drama about childhood and bullying that holds us in its… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Monster (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. Kitty Green’s follow up to The Assistant (a #MeToo drama that was about Harvey Weinstein without actually being about Harvey Weinstein), The Royal Hotel explores similar… Read More #TIFF23 Review: The Royal Hotel (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. 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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. The title of Backspot refers to the position Riley (Devery Jacobs) holds on her high school cheerleading team. She treats cheerleading like an extreme sport,… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Backspot (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 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)
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)
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. An older man wakes up in the morning and gets ready for work. He tenderly mists his houseplants before leaving his modest home, and listens… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Perfect Days (Centrepiece)
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)
By John Corrado Please note that this is a review of the Blu-ray release of Asteroid City. For my full thoughts on the film itself, you can read my original review right here. The latest feature from writer-director Wes Anderson – and one of the best movies of the year, so far – Asteroid City… Read More Blu-ray Review: Asteroid City
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The title of Dreamin’ Wild, the new music drama from writer-director Bill Pohlad, comes from the name of an album first recorded by teenage brothers Donnie and Joe Emerson on their rural Washington farm in the late 1970s. The album flew under the radar, before finding unexpected success… Read More Review: Dreamin’ Wild
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Ben Kingsley stars in the film Jules as Milton Robinson, an aging eccentric who befriends an alien that crash lands in his backyard, and invites the humanoid creature into his home out of loneliness and isolation. This results in an odd but mostly weirdly endearing little film that… Read More Review: Jules
By John Corrado In honour of the film’s milestone 70th anniversary this year, Paramount has given a 4K Ultra HD upgrade to filmmaker William Wyler’s 1951 classic Roman Holiday, starring the incomparable pair of Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck. Shot on location in Rome, Wyler’s film captures the vibrancy of a post-war Italy, built around… Read More 4K Ultra HD Review: Roman Holiday: 70th Anniversary
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