Festivals TIFF 2021: The Survivor won’t be going for the belt anytime soon The Survivor wastes Ben Foster and Vicky Kreips in an overfamiliar prestige drama that botches its approach to the Holocaust.
Festivals TIFF 2021: The frustrating Quickening has only one thing to recommend it Quickening star Arooj Azeem gives a breakout performance, but the rest of the film simply does not match her good work.
Festivals TIFF 2021: As In Heaven is a divinely made hybrid of character study and nightmare With As in Heaven, Tea Lindeberg and star Flora Lindhal craft a stupendous study of a young woman's struggle with her faith amidst horror.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Silent Night is a joyless, doomed slog Silent Night's admittedly intriguing blend of bleaker-than-bleak comedy and holiday spirit is undermined by noxious writing and characters.
Festivals TIFF 2021: The Forgiven offers up yet more rich white people problems Despite its top shelf cast & capable direction, this drama about tourists behaving badly is nothing we haven't seen before.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Drive My Car is a dense, lyrical take on life after grief Ryusuke Hamaguchi adapts a Haruki Murakami short story & gives it additional depth & soul.
Festivals TIFF 2021: The Gravedigger’s Wife & other highlights in African cinema Three features at the Toronto International Film Festival turn the spotlight on the best and brightest in African filmmaking.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Belfast is a touching, understated historical drama Kenneth Branagh directs a moving film about a working class Irish family impacted by the Troubles.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Jane Campion’s neo-western The Power of the Dog is a haunting study of masculinity and repressed desire The great director Jane Campion and a stupendous cast dig deep into dread and melancholy in one of 2021's finest films.
Festivals TIFF: Unclenching the Fists doesn’t forget its humanity as it delves into its bleak tale Cannes Un Certain Regard winner Unclenching the Fists is heavy, but strong performances and craft keep it from being a wallow in misery.
Festivals TIFF: All My Puny Sorrows clings to its source material to its significant detriment All My Puny Sorrows, adapted from the novel of the same name, undermines strong performances by clinging too tightly to its source material.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Violet is an on-the-nose exploration of Hollywood anxiety Olivia Munn's spirited performance elevates what otherwise feels like a moralistic, obvious self-help treatise on trauma and accountability.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Naomi Watts tries to outrun disaster in the horrendous Lakewood Phillip Noyce and Naomi Watts team up for a preposterous, formulaic high-concept thriller that does nothing tasteful with its premise.
Festivals TIFF 2021: Titane is a fever dream best served cold Julia Ducourneau's followup to her stunning debut Raw makes for brutal, beautiful, brilliant body horror.
Festivals TIFF: Mothering Sunday’s intimate sensuality and strong character work shine despite some rough structural work. Mothering Sunday sees star Odessa Young give a stupendous performance of a young woman's birth as a writer and passionate love.
Festivals TIFF: The Mad Women’s Ball is sadly far from a blitz The Mad Women's Ball, Melanie Laurent's adaptation of a novel about a young woman's incarceration in a cruel asylum, is disappointingly flat.
Festivals TIFF: Listening to Kenny G is about as pleasantly inoffensive as his music Penny Lane's profile on the smooth jazz superstar can't quite muster up enough energy to make its explorations of his notoriety (good and bad) sing.
Festivals TIFF: Dear Evan Hansen is a confounding adaptation of the stage musical Ben Platt's age is the least of our problems in Stephen Chbosky's misguided adaptation of the already-misguided musical Dear Evan Hansen.