The most common theme to be found in Short Cuts Programme 04 at this year’s Toronto International film festival is the testing and changing of close personal bonds.
Some of the most fun one can have watching wickedly evil and irredeemable people tearing each other apart, J Blakeson’s sunny looking but coal mine dark comedy I Care a …
The queer romance-slash-literary minded mystery Summer of 85, the latest from prolific French auteur François Ozon, starts off as a darker and mildly intriguing riff on similar themes explored most …
Canadian made coming of age stories aren’t anything new, but few are as layered, complex, and profound as Tracey Deer’s flooring Beans.
Not only does Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt’s Canadian produced documentary No Ordinary Man go to great lengths to reclaim the insidiously rewritten history of their subject, but it also …
An exciting, heartfelt, and socially conscious animated epic for the whole family, Wolfwalkers dazzles with its meshing of old and new world storytelling techniques and visuals.
The third programme of shorts at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival is an embarrassment of riches, with seven of this year’s very best offerings all under a single banner, …
Corny, choppy, and mostly harmless, the inspirational drama Penguin Bloom is based on the true life story of an Australian family who slowly recover from a life altering tragedy with …
A deeply moving motion picture about those who willingly choose to live on the margins of western society, writer-director Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland boasts one of the best leading performances of …
A work of vanity and ego that tries and fails mightily to look like it’s about a famous person’s social advocacy, Matthew Heineman’s documentary The Boy from Medellín isn’t anything …