TIFF

'Hunt' Made Someone at My Screening Yell "What the Fuck!?"
Directed by Lee Jung-jae
PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2022
Hunt is a stylish and exciting shoot-'em-up action movie — but as an espionage mystery, it totally loses the plot. The directorial debut fr...
'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' Is Stuck in 2020
Directed by Rian Johnson
PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2022
Much of the fun of Knives Out was how it leaned into its shamelessly retro whodunit formula. The sequel, on the other hand, is very much of...
'The Fabelmans' Is Steven Spielberg's Well-Earned Self-Congratulations
Directed by Steven Spielberg
PUBLISHED Nov 22, 2022
Last year, Steven Spielberg dipped a tentative toe into his childhood by directing a new adaptation of West Side Story, a musical he'd love...
'The Menu' Is Deliciously Nasty
Directed by Mark Mylod
PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2022
The Menu wasn't a part of TIFF's Midnight Madness programme this year, but it would have been perfectly at home with the raucous late night...
'The Wonder' Could Have Been More Wonderful
Directed by Sebastián Lelio
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2022
In a small village in the Irish Midlands, a young child, Anna O'Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy), and her family claim she hasn't eaten in four...
'Decision to Leave' Is Wonderfully Excessive
Directed by Park Chan-wook
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022
Beginning with the image of a man splayed out at the bottom of a mountain, Decision to Leave wastes no time. Although it initially appears...
'The Banshees of Inisherin' Takes the Wit of 'In Bruges' to Even Darker Places
Directed by Martin McDonagh
PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2022
The first 30 minutes or so of The Banshees of Inisherin recall the hilarious banter of Martin McDonagh, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson's...
'All Quiet on the Western Front' Is an Instant Classic with a New Perspective
Directed by Edward Berger
PUBLISHED Oct 13, 2022
In 1929, Erich Maria Remarque's novel Im Westen nichts Neues was published recounting his, and his fellow German soldiers', experience in t...