T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 22, 2021 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.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 22, 2021 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.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 22, 2021 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.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 22, 2021 Reeling 2021: Though handsome, Firebird fails to ignite Firebird, Peeter Rebane's adaptation of queer memoir The Story of Roman, is far too timid, especially when it has the potential to blaze.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 22, 2021 Reeling 2021: The autobiographical North by Current eloquently studies a family’s hurt and the nature of memory. North by Current sees Angelo Madsen Minax examine his family and their history with care, grace, and impeccable craft.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 36 September 22, 2021 Reeling 2021: Saint-Narcisse loves its own reflection Bruce LaBruce's latest, Saint-Narcisse, is a scintillating tale of queer lust, families, and doubles.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 22, 2021 Reeling 2021: Jump Darling sends off Cloris Leachman in style The late, great movie star gives a stupendous performance in this winning odd-couple dramedy.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 21, 2021 Reeling 2021: Queens of the Revolution celebrates queer Cubans and the lives they have built With Queens of the Revolution, Rebecca Heidenberg presents Cuba's queer community and their work with care and thought.
R Categories Festivals Movies Reeling 2021 Reviews September 20, 2021 Reeling 2021: Boulevard! A Hollywood Story delves into one of the fascinating shadows cast by a legendary film Boulevard!—Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary on a never-was musical adaptation of Sunset Boulevard and its makers—is insightful if scattered.
T Categories Festivals Movies Reviews TIFF 2021 September 19, 2021 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.
