reviews
'Speak No Evil' Is a Rare Remake That Improves on the Original
Directed by James Watkins
PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2024
The 2024 remake of Danish film 'Speak No Evil' does a lot more than the original, and leaves audiences much more fulfilled. It's a stylized...
Pulp Were Consummate Stars in Toronto
History, September 10
PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2024
Pulp should have been enormous. Monstrous, even. Okay, so they were huge, especially overseas, but here on our side of the Atlantic, they ...
'Friendship' Made Someone at My Screening Yell "Awful Movie!" at the Director
Directed by Andrew DeYoung
PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2024
Tim Robinson has become synonymous with his surreal Netflix series 'I Think You Should Leave,' which is maybe why 'Friendship' feels a bit...
Hinds' 'Viva Hinds' Is a Playful Reset
PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024
Summer wouldn't be the same without a little romance, and that's exactly what pulses through Hinds' lighthearted new record — Carlotta Cosia...
'The Mother and the Bear' Warms a Winnipeg Winter
Directed by Johnny Ma
PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024
On a cold Winnipeg evening, a rustling behind a dumpster in an alleyway startles a young woman, Sumi (Leere Park), who slips and falls on...
'Young Werther' Puts a Fresh Toronto Twist on a Classic
Directed by José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço
PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024
Based on the 1774 novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'Young Werther' follows the time-honoured tradition of...
'Riff Raff' Is a TIFF Laff
Directed by Dito Montiel
PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2024
'Riff Raff' is a masterwork of typecasting: there's Jennifer Coolidge as a sloppy drunk, Ed Harris as a gruff patriarch who balances caring...
'Nightbitch' Has Both Bark and Bite
Directed by Marielle Heller
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2024
Of all the human experiences, motherhood is a particularly visceral. There's childbirth, of course, but then there are the the struggles...