Toronto Film Festival
‘Steal Away’ Review: Angourie Rice and Mallori Johnson Lead a Thin Mystical Allegory
[ad_1] “Steal Away” starts with intertitles that announce it as a tale of “two princesses.” The implied fairy tale trappings are appropriate for this metaphor heavy film. Director Clement Virgo...
‘Good News’ Review: A Sharp Political Farce From the Director of ‘Kill Boksoon’ Follows an Unplanned Detour From Tokyo to Pyongyang
[ad_1] Terrorism is not exactly a natural fit for screen comedy. Defiantly going where few have gone before — one rare prior example being the bumbling-jihadist satire “Four Lions” 15...
‘Exit 8’ Review: A Lost Man Wanders a Labyrinthine Limbo in a Witty, Elegantly Spare Videogame Adaptation
[ad_1] Given how few first-person videogames make a successful transition to the big screen, it’s surprising how easy Genki Kawamura‘s “Exit 8” makes it look. But perhaps the key to...
Isabel Coixet and Alba Rohrwacher on Toronto Title ‘Three Goodbyes’ and Portraying a Cancer-Stricken Woman ‘From a Fresh Perspective’
[ad_1] Early in her illustrious career, Spanish director Isabel Coixet broke out internationally with “My Life Without Me,” in which Sarah Polley plays a young mother who conceals the fact...
‘Sacrifice’ Review: Virtue-Signaling Billionaires Dance on the Edge of a Volcano in Romain Gavras’ Scattershot Satire
[ad_1] How many rebellious movies about ganging up to overthrow the status quo does one need to make before uneasy governments start to put you on some kind of watch...
Shailene Woodley and Ben Foster on Preparing for Their Dialogue-Lite ‘70s Drama ‘Motor City’
[ad_1] If you ask Ben Foster, he was born to play the part of a mustachioed, chest hair-baring gangster in the ‘70s set drama “Motor City.” “We had a fabulous...
‘Hamnet’ Wins Toronto Film Festival Audience Award
[ad_1] Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet” captured the Toronto International Film Festival’s highly coveted people’s choice award, bolstering its Oscars chances. Since the Academy expanded the best picture field in 2009, TIFF...
‘You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution…’ Review: An Exuberant and Essential Doc for Comedy Heads
[ad_1] The comedy revolution referred to by the title of Nick Davis’s sharp and effusive documentary “You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution…” is...
‘Easy’s Waltz’ Review: Vince Vaughn Reveals a Hidden Talent for Singing in Nic Pizzolatto’s Low-Key Debut
[ad_1] Who knew Vince Vaughn could carry a tune? Turns out, the actor’s been singing right under our noses for years, from the ironic Alanis Morissette cover he delivered in...
‘Driver’s Ed’ Review: Bobby Farrelly’s Tame Throwback Exhumes, But Can’t Revive, the ’90s Teen Comedy
[ad_1] Both an obvious product of ’90s nostalgia and the definitive cure for it, Bobby Farrelly‘s terminally innocuous “Driver’s Ed” can be described as a youth comedy, but whose youth?...
