Lean On Pete Movie Review: Andrew Haigh spins a beautiful and tragic coming of age tale

What tremendous lengths we go to in order to combat the impending sense of loneliness. That lingering sense of empty space along with the mechanisms of a coming of age story round out director Andrew Haigh’s latest feature film. Introspective,…

TIFF Movie Review: Lean On Pete

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. What great lengths we go to in order to combat the impending sense of loneliness. That lingering doubt along with the mechanisms of a coming of age story round out director Andrew Haigh’s…

TIFF Movie Review: The Shape of Water

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. Director Guillermo del Toro builds his worlds from the ground up, imbuing his chosen universes with such distinct senses of self that we can’t help but buy immediately into the world he’s drawn. A…

TIFF Movie Review: Molly’s Game

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. With high voltage energy and the type of kinetic movement that possesses his screenplay’s, Aaron Sorkin’s first directorial endeavor blasts off with a bang, capturing our attention before the title card drops. In…

TIFF Review: The Disaster Artist

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. I’ve had some very uncomfortable moments in my life. There was the time in the first grade where I had a crush on a girl and so I got her a flower. As…

TIFF Review: Euphoria

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. The English-language debut of Sweden’s Lisa Langseth and her third collaboration with actress Alicia Vikander, their latest outing together suffers from a tonally inconsistent script. Despite two powerful, if distinctly different, performances…

TIFF Movie Review: Mary Shelley

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. There’s no worth in trying to deny that Mary Shelley is an utterly familiar biopic. Much more though in the vein of a Victorian era literary adaptation (think Far From the Madding Crowd) than something…