A lazily reductive and somewhat insulting bit of performative activism writ large, the anti-bullying drama Good Joe Bell is trying too desperately to be “Green Book for gay people.”
Winner of this year’s Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco’s latest, New Order, is a bracing, pointed, and occasionally sloppy bit of social commentary that …
Antebellum is a film that seemingly deserves a better hand than the one it’s been dealt and a bit more time to rethink the decisions that doom it to failure.
The Devil All the Time is a strange film, not only because of its brooding, violent, and foreboding tone, but also because of the sheer exhaustion one feels while watching …
Uncomfortable honesty seems to be the theme most prevalent throughout the films found in the fifth and final programme of shorts at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, and it …
Mira Nair’s epic romantic miniseries A Suitable Boy closes out this year’s Toronto International Film Festival with a suitably binge-worthy epic.
Italian filmmaker and documentarian Gianfranco Rossi is a master of capturing profound images that speak volumes about the human condition, and his latest, Notturno, is no exception.
The true power of Pieces of a Woman lies in the increasing emotional toll of every moment that follows in the wake of its tremendous, highly talked about opening sequence.
An assured, albeit somewhat basic and overindulgent directorial debut from Viggo Mortensen, Falling is the type of drama one can tell was made by a well trained actor at the …
For better and worse, comparisons to the likes of Lars von Trier and Brian De Palma will be somewhat unavoidable when looking at Canadian writer-directors Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli’s …