No preamble, let’s get into the reviews. The Holdovers – I love the way Alexander Payne looks at human connection and acerbic people. I think The Holdovers is a very solid movie with strong performances throughout. Paul Giamatti is great and his scenes and moments with Dominic Tessa really soar. Da’Vine Randolph Joy is good
Late night TIFF reactions, let’s go! The Teacher’s Lounge Get ready for the most entertaining 98 minutes of hell on a movie screen you’ll see all year when The Teacher’s Lounge arrives to a screen near you. Thrillingly acted and written with real panache, I definitely see how this movie was chosen by Germany as
Lee Miller was an iconic war correspondent responsible for some of the most important photos during World War 2. But that’s just a small part of her story, the film Lee alleges. The movie, directed by Ellen Kuras, looks into what made the woman behind these iconic images tick and how the various relationships that
So I have mixed feelings about nearly everything I saw today at TIFF. It interesting to get a day like this halfway through the festival but each had something that I found fascinating, even when bad. Hell of a Summer Your teen’s first slasher movie, Hell of a Summer is a great entry for younger
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