Review: TABU is a Glorious Celebration of Cinema and Crocodiles
Tabu calls to mind the oft-repeated comparison between film directors and magicians. Indeed, how else but with magic could Portuguese director Miguel Gomes have created such a joyful, enthralling film from this wild mix of historical adventure, deadpan humor, romance,... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY - THE UNTRUE STORY OF MONTY PYTHON'S GRAHAM CHAPMAN
Graham Chapman has been dead for almost a quarter century, but that hasn't stopped him from starring in a brand new film. If that weren't notable enough, this work is also the closest we'll probably ever get to a legitimate... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THERMAE ROMAE
The TIFF programme guide breathlessly extolled the success of Thermae Romae in its native country, declaring the film, based on an extremely popular manga, "Japan's biggest box office hit of the year". This goes to prove a couple things -... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: HYDE PARK ON THE HUDSON
It may be difficult to get past seeing Hyde Park on the Hudson as anything more than a cynical play at Oscar success, shadowing last year's The King's Speech with another tale of the stuttering King, this time set on... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
Let me be completely frank and upfront about this - the world could very much use a fine documentary about Angela Davis. She's a fascinating woman, extremely intelligent and eloquent. A continental philosopher who rose to a level of prominence... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE ICEMAN
Like a stiff mixed drink that doesn't live up to the quality of its ingredients, The Iceman proves to be an unpalatable, underwhelming crime drama.All the great parts are there - we've got a simmering Michael Shannon in a 70s... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: LUNARCY!
Lunarcy! is one of those delightful character piece documentaries, akin to where Errol Morris will go down to some swampy Florida town and meet totally unique, bizarre and obsessive individuals and put them on screen for our edification.Director Simon Ennis'... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: LONDON - THE MODERN BABYLON
By any normal measure, Julien Temple's film London could easily have been terrible. The conceit, a slew of archive footage interspersed with talking head interviews, is the recipe for loads of horrendous television programmes that serve as filler on the... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: GHOST GRADUATION
One of the most charming, silly and rambunctious films of this year's festival, Ghost Graduation is an unabashed love letter to the cinema of John Hughes, mixed in with bits of The Frighteners or Ghostbusters for good measure. The film... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: BLANCANIEVES
When an ostensibly "silent" film takes home the best picture Oscar, beating out another film about George Meliés, you know we're living in a cinematic landscape where everything nostalgic is ripe for revisitation. While some found The Artist contrived, I... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: ARTIFACT
One one level, Artifact has elements of that that most egregious of self-serving documentaries, the tale of the woeful band fighting against their evil corporate overlord.We start with the band Thirty Seconds to Mars trying to record their latest album,... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE BAY
When it was announced that Barry Levinson was going to be having a film as part of the TIFF Midnight Madness slate, and that it would be a found footage horror piece about infected water, I admit I wasn't expecting... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE ACT OF KILLING
Easily one of this decade's most important and most harrowing documentaries, The Act of Killing is a shattering take on the nature of evil.The conceit of the documentary is unique to the form - filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer traveled to Indonesia... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
The trailer for David O. Russell's follow up to his Oscar nominated The Fighter, combined with the twee title, makes Silver Linings Playbook to be a horrible film about crazy people in love.Its a credit both to Russell, a fine... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: ABCs OF DEATH
The anthology film, that strange form of film where a number of directors assemble to tell their own take on a given subject, are strange cinematic beasts. On the one hand, they play like mini festivals, a cinematic buffet, or... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: BYZANTIUM is Stuck Between Worlds
Two sisters try to lay low in Dublin while being pursued by long-coated inspectors. Having committed a rather kinetic and conspicuous murder in the opening sequence of the film, the Webb sisters are actually a pair of highland blood suckers, a 200 year... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE LORDS OF SALEM Is a Slick Satanic Head Trip
It appears that Rob Zombie may have been studying up on his David Lynch lately as the metal-head-turned-filmmaker's latest is more head trip than it is horror. That's not to say The Lords of Salem doesn't have plenty of... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: PENANCE Is A Soapy But Intense Study Of Grief
Losing a child is the worst possible fear of any parent, losing their child by violence the worst possible iteration of that fear. And so it is that Asako is consumed by grief and anger when her young daughter Emili... More »
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TIFF 2012 Review: MOTORWAY Speeds Down a Divided Highway
It was way back in September 2009 when we first reported that director Soi Cheang would be following up his award-winning film Accident with a car chase action thriller entitled Motorway. Fast-forward 18 months and a trailer for the... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: COME OUT AND PLAY Drops the Ball
A textbook case of a remake failing to improve on a classic original, Come Out And Play not only loses the context of the hidden Narciso Ibáñez Serrador directed gem, which was released on the heels of the Vietnam War... More »
  
 
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