By Mark Asch
Taika Waititi is way-too eager to please with this aggressively feel-good comic fictionalisation of the lovely 2014 documentary of the same name.
Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, about a abused upstart actress and a serial killer in her midst, says all the right things, but too loud and too often.
By Mark Asch
The new film from one of Romania's foremost cine-ironists, Radu Jude, is a glorious, poisonous, everything-in-the-pot treatise on the state of the world today.
Amidst Weird Al and werewolves, there was another boogeyman at TIFF this year: copyright law.
By Mark Asch
Olivia Colman channels her inner Anna Karina in director Sam Mendes’ mawkish ode to the magic of the movies.
By Mark Asch
A group of activists take radical action against climate change in Daniel Goldhaber's eco-thriller.
By Erin Brady
Mercenaries and demonic encounters featured in some of the most interesting films that played at this year’s TIFF.
A return to form for China’s Zhang Yimou with this tale of a village attempting to restore a damaged movie reel.
Alison Klayman delves into the origins and legacy of Alanis Morissette’s groundbreaking album ‘Jagged Little Pill’.
Stephen Karam adapts his own Tony Award-winning family drama with the help of an impressive ensemble cast.
By Erin Brady
A woman who sees spirits is committed to a psychiatric hospital in this book adaptation by Mélanie Laurent.
Riz Ahmed is a father on a mission to save his sons from an extraterrestrial threat in Michael Pearce’s complex sci-fi drama.
Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes spend a fateful weekend in Morocco in John Michael McDonagh’s scabrous class satire.
Jessica Chastain goes all-out in Michael Showalter’s superficial biopic of televangelist Tammy Faye Messner.
Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman ponder post-colonisation in this percussive, transcendental Afrofuturist musical.
A middle-aged man tends to a young girl with ice dentures in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s elliptical English-language debut.
By Erin Brady
Rob Savage’s follow-up to Host is a terrifying yet frustrating experience about social media narcissism.
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