Starting with a dramatization of the murder of Trayvon Martin and mixing in other horrors the caste systems of the world have wrought, Origin is a movie you’ll certainly need to gird your loins for if you belong to a marginalized community. It’s a stark look at caste systems and how they have impacted the
American Fiction, the adaptation of Percival Everett’s Erasure, is a prickly thing. A grounded satire that both funny and emotional, the movie tackles a variety of subjects like race, identity, and the writing/entertainment industries. Jeffrey Wright plays Thelonious Ellison, an author and professor, whose disregard for his student sensitivities gets him put on sabbatical. Taking
What is human nature? How is it affected by the systems placed on it and what would happen if those fell away? If you’re looking for answers to those questions, make sure to get to a theater near you when Concrete Utopia opens. An aftermath of a disaster movie, this film plants us in Korea
As I have begun to see with the films chosen for this year’s TIFF, lots of films tackled pretty heady subject matter and aims to use narrative tools to paint a picture of an issue. Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut Woman of the Hour certainly works as another reminder of how violence against women is not
It’s very late now on TIFF 2023 Day 2 and all of my screenings are starting to blend together already. I saw three films today and wanted to make sure to get these mini reviews out for The Boy and the Heron, Finestkind, and Les Indésirables. I’ll likely expand these in the future, especially the
Is there such a thing as too much ambiguity or too much openness in a film? If there was ever a movie that would make you ponder that question it’s Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s new film Evil Does Not Exist. I’m not sure if there’s ever been a movie I’ve struggled with reviewing quite like this one.