We sit down with Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi, the writer-director of the award winning feature film Ava to talk about how the film has been perceived in Iran and abroad, …
Maze Runner: The Death Cure is one of the worst franchise films ever created, and a fitting sendoff to one of the worst overall franchises in movie history.
The endearingly weird and strange Birdland feels like a bunch of hard-boiled genre throwbacks cobbled together, but presented with a modernist sheen, and damned if it isn’t supremely entertaining.
Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar this year, filmmaker Ziad Doueiri’s incendiary and often obvious courtroom drama The Insult has a lot of great performances and an easy …
The documentary Free Lunch Society makes the concept of a guaranteed, unconditional source of income for everyone on planet Earth sound like a capital idea, but Austrian filmmaker Christian Tod …
The slight and passive survival thriller Monolith has a plot that would feel right at home in a made-for-television movie, which makes perfect sense considering that it has already premiered …
Gently skewering biopic conventions in a manner befitting the film’s witty, yet unreliable protagonist, A Futile and Stupid Gesture offers some hearty laughs before turning heartfelt and serious, mostly without …
Ava, the first feature film from Iranian born and Montreal based writer-director Sadaf Foroughi, is a powerful work of great cultural and political significance.
The subtle, melancholic period drama Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool lovingly recreates a footnote in theatrical and cinematic history with great poignancy and poise.
Better as a dark family drama than as a twisting mystery, the Canadian indie-noir Hollow in the Land has just enough great ideas to be intriguing, and a commanding lead …