While it isn’t carving out enough new territory to set it apart from other similar updates of Shakespearian material, director Aneil Karia’s Hamlet does a fine job of understanding the …
Riz Ahmed
I had an interesting conversation with a colleague after watching Relay for the first time, last September at TIFF. Given the people involved with the making of it, Relay was …
Director Christos Nikou’s first English language feature, Fingernails, is the worst kind of pretentious: an unoriginal idea that constantly insists its well worn concepts are deeply profound.
One of the most layered, best performed, technically complex, and thoroughly convincing dramas of the year, director and co-writer Darius Marder’s Sound of Metal is an absolute powerhouse of a …
A movie with a lot on its mind and not enough time and space to express it all, Mogul Mowgli is a deliberately off-balance drama bolstered by an electrifying leading …
A unique, beguiling, and subtly humorous take on the western genre, French filmmaker Jacques Audiard’s adaptation of Canadian novelist Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers breathes ingenious new life into a …
Marred by a clear, obvious, and marked series of poor decisions throughout the filmmaking process, the standalone, antiheroic Venom movie will disappoint fans of one of Spider-Man’s greatest nemeses to …