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'Bring Them Down' Will Bring You Down — in the Best Way
Directed by Christopher Andrews
PUBLISHED Feb 5, 2025
Some people go to the movies to be whisked away by romance, others for laughter, many for an adrenaline rush. Me though, I like having my...
'Paying for It' Is a Wonderful Bit of Oversharing
Directed by Sook-Yin Lee
PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2025
The backstory alone is unlike anything else: filmmaker/musician/artist Sook-Yin Lee and cartoonist Chester Brown were in a romantic...
'Presence' Is an Unexpected Fake-Out
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2025
More often than not, Steven Soderbergh's career is spoken of as this kind of Soderbergh movie or that kind of Soderbergh movie. His...
'Nightbitch' Has Both Bark and Bite
Directed by Marielle Heller
PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2025
Of all the human experiences, motherhood is a particularly visceral. There's childbirth, of course, but then there are the the struggles...
'The Last Showgirl' Ushers In the Pamassaince
Directed by Gia Coppola
PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2025
The Pamaissance is here. After 2022's 'Pam & Tommy' reappraised Pamela Anderson as a sympathetic hero, the 2023 doc 'Pamela, a love story'...
'Young Werther' Puts a Fresh Toronto Twist on a Classic
Directed by José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço
PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2025
Based on the 1774 novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'Young Werther' follows the time-honoured tradition of...
'Emilia Pérez' Wows with Fresh, Vibrant Performances
Directed by Jacques Audiard
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2024
Musical crime comedy 'Emilia Pérez' began to make waves after the film won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and its female...
Bruce Springsteen's 'Road Diary' Introduces the Concept of Concerts
Directed by Thom Zimny
PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2024
Before the screening of Bruce Springsteen's 'Road Diary' documentary, a TIFF programmer came out to introduce the film and made an off-hand...