Film Reviews
While Apartment 7A far exceeds the 1978 sequel and the 2014 remake of Rosemary’s Baby, it neither lives up to the suspense or the politics of the original.
Azrael has buckets of blood, some fun traps, and plenty of intrigue for those willing to overlook these gestures towards deeper meanings more fully.
If you somehow need more proof that artificial intelligence cannot rival the humanity needed to create great art, all you need to do is watch Anora.
Despite a trepidatious takeoff and a bit of a rocky landing, where Charlie Tango really shines is at its cruising altitude.
Tuesday was a beautiful and moving film, if you haven’t seen it, you need to and you need to tell five friends to do the same.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ Kinds of Kindness is smart and funny, uncomfortable, moving, and confusing. It is also beautiful.
The Toronto International Film Festival brought quite the number of horror films this year. Kevin L. Lee reviews Heretic, Presence and Hold Your Breath.
The Crow struggles to connect with audiences due to its lack of compelling character development and chemistry.
Both The Assessment and Emilia Pérez demonstrate the versatility of a festival like TIFF, which is always inclusive of all genres and subgenres of cinema.
On this TIFF report, Kristy Strouse reviews The Mother and the Bear and Shepherds – two unforgettable films on a path to self discovery.
Matt and Mara is the kind of film where, on the surface, it might seem that nothing is happening, but even the smallest moments can impact.
Both The Substance and The Last Showgirl evaluate mortality by leaning on their respective stars’ relationship with celebrity in real life.
While Subservience knows how to deploy its star, it still can’t fully live up to the promise of this meta-premise or her talents as a performer.
Girls Will Be Girls is a powerful examination of how the patriarchy continues to punish girls/women for pushing back against the narrow roles prescribed.
Both TIFF films yearn to be more than what they actually are, but alas, gets stranded in a middle ground of mediocrity.