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)
By John Corrado The first trailer has been released for the upcoming A24 movie We Live in Time. The romantic drama from director John Crowley (Brooklyn) stars Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, and is described as a “decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.” It was just announced yesterday that the film will have it’s world premiere at… Read More Trailer Released for We Live in Time
By John Corrado The feature directorial debut of Canadian filmmaker Meredith Hama-Brown, Seagrass is a patient character drama that captures the slow deterioration of a biracial family unit. Judith (Ally Maki) is a Japanese-Canadian woman who is experiencing difficulties in her marriage to non-Asian husband Steve (Luke Roberts). These challenges are amplified by Judith’s mother… Read More Movie Review: Seagrass
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 7th to 17th. Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe (which was voted the winner of the TIFF People’s Choice Award for Documentary) is a heartwarming documentary about a childhood icon, that also touches on the history of Canadian children’s… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Mr. Dressup: The Magic of Make-Believe (TIFF Docs)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 7th to 17th. Tarsem Singh Dhandwar returns with Dear Jassi (which was awarded the Platform prize at TIFF), a stylistically mature romantic heartbreaker rooted in tragic fact that is both the Indian-born director’s first film set in India, and his most… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Dear Jassi (Platform)
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 7th to 17th. The debut feature from writer-director Weston Razooli, Riddle of Fire is a delightful childhood fantasy shot on 16mm, that really feels like watching a piece of lost media from the 1970s. Razooli has described his film… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Riddle or Fire (Midnight Madness)
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 7th to 17th. The latest film from New Zealand director Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit), Next Goals Wins is a simple crowdpleaser that tells the story of the American Samoa football team, trying to rebound following a historic loss when… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Next Goal Wins (Special 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 latest film from Danish director Lone Scherfig (An Education), The Movie Teller is a solid, old fashioned drama about the magic of movies. Based on… Read More #TIFF23 Review: The Movie Teller (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 latest film from Japanese filmmaker Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, following his Oscar-winning Drive My Car, Evil Does Not Exist is a very interesting cinematic experience that mixes elements… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Evil Does Not Exist (Special 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. Aggro Dr1ft, the latest cinematic provocation from director Harmony Korine, is less a movie and more an experimental (and experiential) film that defies convention or easy… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Aggro Dr1ft (Midnight Madness)
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. Many actors have made the leap to directing over the years, with the results sometimes being better than others. And then there’s Chris Pine’s directorial debut… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Poolman (Special 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. Nearly twenty years after Sideways, director Alexander Payne reunites with star Paul Giamatti for The Holdovers, a wonderful coming of age Christmas movie that deftly balances… Read More #TIFF23 Review: The Holdovers (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. Finn Wolfhard of Stranger Things fame makes the jump to filmmaking with Hell of a Summer, a pretty fun 1980s throwback slasher movie that he co-directed… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Hell of a Summer (Midnight Madness)
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. Inspired by Cheryl Della Pietra’s autobiographical book of the same name, which was drawn from the author’s time working as Hunter S. Thompson’s personal assistant in… Read More #TIFF23 Review: Gonzo Girl (Discovery)
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