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'Flee' Is a One-of-a-Kind Refugee Documentary

Directed by Jonas Poher Rasmussen

PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2021

Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen knew his friend Amin (a pseudonym) was an immigrant to Denmark from Afghanistan, but he had no idea just how...

Kenneth Branagh Mines Childhood Memories to Give 'Belfast' a Lived-In Beauty

Directed by Kenneth Branagh

PUBLISHED Nov 15, 2021

During the Q&A following Belfast's Gala Presentation at TIFF, director and writer Kenneth Branagh was asked about the impetus for writing t...

'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' Can Haz a Sweet Love Story, but the Cats Are a Bit Much

Directed by Will Sharpe

PUBLISHED Oct 20, 2021

Sometimes I look at my two cats, Stripes and Dusty, and marvel at how strange it is that I allow these two small, furry, troublemaking pred...

'Night Raiders' Examines Canada's Colonial Past by Imagining Its Sci-Fi Future

Directed by Danis Goulet

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2021

Night Raiders tells the story of Canada's colonial past, with particular focus on the residential school system, in the form of a sci-fi, d...

'Titane' Is Just as Weird as You'd Expect of a Film About Having Sex with a Car

Directed by Julia Ducournau

PUBLISHED Oct 5, 2021

The one-liner about Titane out of Cannes Film Festival was, "Girl has sex with a car and becomes pregnant." And the movie is, for the most...

'The Guilty' Is a Gripping Thriller That's All Talk and No Action

Directed by Antoine Fuqua

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2021

The Guilty does a lot with a little. It's totally barebones: a runtime of exactly 90 minutes, a tiny cast that pretty much consists entirel...

The Best (and Worst) Films We Saw at TIFF 2021

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2021

After 2020's severely stripped-down version, this year's Toronto International Film Festival was almost back to its old self. In-person aud...

'The Other Tom' Is a One-Note Look at a Complex Issue

Directed by Rodrigo Plá and Laura Santullo

PUBLISHED Sep 21, 2021

Tom (Israel Rodríguez Bertorelli) is a wayward, rambunctious little boy and a handful to his single mother Elena (Julia Chávez). A perennia...