Jak Luke Sharp 10/10/23 Jak Luke Sharp 10/10/23

TIFF 2023: How to Have Sex

The layers, restraint, emotional depth and ultimately execution of this venture is exemplary to a degree that it’s almost astonishing to note

Jak Luke Sharp 10/5/23 Jak Luke Sharp 10/5/23

TIFF 2023: The Settlers ‘Los Colons’

Los Colons is the atypical feature from a film festival

Jak Luke Sharp 9/13/23 Jak Luke Sharp 9/13/23

TIFF 2023: Spirit of Ecstasy (La Vénus d'argent)

Spirit of Ecstasy is quintessentially French angst

Alina Faulds 10/15/21 Alina Faulds 10/15/21

TIFF 2021: The Wheel

The Wheel is an emotionally charged and deeply intimate look at a young couple on the brink of divorce

Randy Burrows 10/13/21 Randy Burrows 10/13/21

TIFF 2021: Quickening

Quickening is an extraordinarily confident telling of a story about a young Pakistani-Canadian woman struggling with identity

Randy Burrows 10/12/21 Randy Burrows 10/12/21

TIFF 2021: Flee

Flee is as poignant as it is harrowing

Randy Burrows 10/12/21 Randy Burrows 10/12/21

TIFF 2021: Burning

Burning does not educate, articulate, or resonate in any particular way that is powerful

Randy Burrows 10/12/21 Randy Burrows 10/12/21

TIFF 2021: The Rescue

The Rescue does amazing emotional work

Randy Burrows 10/11/21 Randy Burrows 10/11/21

TIFF 2021: You Are Not My Mother

You Are Not My Mother features adequate visuals, but it never latches onto any meaningful iconography

Randy Burrows 10/11/21 Randy Burrows 10/11/21

TIFF 2021: Anatolian Leopard

Anatolian Leopard is filled with mood, albeit the consistent, steady mood of a rather un-relatable and tiring old man

Randy Burrows 10/11/21 Randy Burrows 10/11/21

TIFF 2021: OUT OF SYNC

Despite that compelling hook, the OUT OF SYNC script is a bit of a lost cause

Alina Faulds 10/9/21 Alina Faulds 10/9/21

TIFF 2021: Belfast

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is his most personal and sweet film to date

Alina Faulds 10/9/21 Alina Faulds 10/9/21

TIFF 2021: Oscar Peterson: Black + White

A fitting tribute to the piano virtuoso, perfectly capturing how his music and Peterson himself became so beloved

Randy Burrows 10/8/21 Randy Burrows 10/8/21

TIFF 2021: Medusa

Any poignancy in the social commentary is lost in Medusa’s shaky efforts to balance its character arcs

Randy Burrows 10/8/21 Randy Burrows 10/8/21

TIFF 2021: Terrorizers

Terrorizers is an impressive modern thriller

Randy Burrows 10/7/21 Randy Burrows 10/7/21

TIFF 2021: After Blue (Dirty Paradise)

After Blue is completely inaccessible

Randy Burrows 10/7/21 Randy Burrows 10/7/21

TIFF 2021: Inexorable

Inexorable is a character-driven thriller that avoids convention as much as it demands attention

Randy Burrows 10/6/21 Randy Burrows 10/6/21

TIFF 2021: Official Competition

Official Competition is not a comedy that sets out for the belly laugh

Randy Burrows 10/5/21 Randy Burrows 10/5/21

TIFF 2021: The Other Tom

The Other Tom suffers from an inarticulate, clunky voice in its storytelling

Carson Timar 10/5/21 Carson Timar 10/5/21

TIFF 2021: Where is Anne Frank?

Where is Anne Frank? is a bold animated feature from Ari Folman that brings a poignant and needed thesis through a challenging package