TIFF Movie Review: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here.  Director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) possess two crucial understandings of what creates excellence in character building. The first, is the belief in the duality of human nature and that the version…

TIFF Movie Review: Stronger

To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here.  For the first half of David Gordon Green’s film Stronger, based on the book of the same name by Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal), who lost both his legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing,…

TIFF Movie Review: Downsizing

Downsizing has a tonal problem in that the film we’re watching in the first act is drastically different than the one we watch in the second, which is drastically different than that of the third. At the very least, we can…