At TIFF: History Class is in Session with Robert Redford's Conspirator (Just Don't Fall Asleep)
Behold the paradox of Robert Redford: Lauded as one of the most innovative, influential filmmaking advocates around, as a filmmaker he has acquired a reputation as a…
At TIFF: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer Bond in Bittersweet Beginners
It's often said -- and most often by people in relationships themselves -- that no one can ever really know what happens between two people in love, or even those…
At TIFF: Brighton Rock Extends the Graham Greene Adaptation Curse
In one of his sidelong memoirs, Graham Greene suggested that not only was the bullying he suffered as an English schoolboy the main reason that he became a writer, but…
It's Kind Of A Funny Story Is Also Kind of a Disappointing One
Here's my kind of funny story: When I was a post-collegiate punk with an afternoon to burn, I would often spend hours riding the single ticket I bought at the very…
Marverlously Animated Illusionist Brings a Little Long-Gestating Magic to Toronto
Seven years in the actual assembly and about 50 more in the making, The Illusionist is a labor of love that achieves an increasingly rare phenomenon in feature…
REVIEW: If Only Joaquin Phoenix's Lost Year in I'm Still Here Had Stayed Lost
There is one moment of true terror in I'm Still Here, Casey Affleck's dickish, realish account of his brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix's "lost year," and it does not…
REVIEW: Vincent Cassel's Gangster Saga Fizzles to an End in Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1
Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1 picks up not where its predecessor (Mesrine: Killer Instinct, which opened last week) left off, but rather where that film's first scene left…
REVIEW: You'll Hate Going the Distance Long Before You Relate to It
I stand before you the apparent target market for Going the Distance, the latest 'x' in the "con" column of Drew Barrymore's exasperating career ledger. After a recent…
REVIEW: Noodle Shop Stays Close to Coen Brothers Source, But Not Close Enough
An unlikely, unwieldy transplant of the Coen brothers classic Blood Simple to an indeterminate, dynastic domain of China, Zhang Yimou's A Woman, A Gun and A Noodle Shop…
REVIEW: Next-Level Bloodshed, Stunning Visuals Keep Centurion From Genre Oblivion
If you're like me, and you find yourself retreating to a safe place in your mind whenever human beings are being graphically decapitated on screen, you'll spend the…
REVIEW: Brutal Gangster Murders Story in Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Luridly handsome and resolutely unsympathetic, as played by Vincent Cassel, the title character in the gangster's greatest hits compilation Mesrine: Killer Instinct is a…
REVIEW: Peru's Burdens Slow Down Oscar-Nominated Milk of Sorrow
"Only death is obligatory," Noe (Efraín Solis) says in The Milk of Sorrow, "the rest is because we want to." After earning a rare measure of trust from Fausta (Magaly…
REVIEW: Film Unfinished Leaves Haunting Impression of Nazi Imagemakers, Victims
The narrator of Israeli director Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished describes the "layers of meaning" locked within the images recorded by Nazi soldiers of the residents…
REVIEW: Lottery Ticket Trades Its Urban Nerve for Easy Charm
Erik White wanted the housing projects in Lottery Ticket, his fractious wish-fulfillment comedy, to look like an "Everywhere, USA" that would be relatable to all. Though…
REVIEW: Ballet is the Star in Otherwise Uninspired Mao's Last Dancer
Hyper-earnest and less than half good, Mao's Last Dancer puts a biopic gloss on a bumpy journey, that traveled by Chinese ballet dancer Li Cunxin from Maoist China to…
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