TIFF Review: ‘Mimosas’
Oliver Laxe's Mimosas offers strokes of absurdity and subtle thematic development contributing to an experiment in contemplative cinema.
TIFF Review: ‘Politics, Instruction Manual’
Politics, Instructions Manual is an interesting but flawed take on a contemporary left-wing populist political movement.
TIFF Review: ‘Hermia & Helena’
Hermia & Helena, like Piñeiro’s previous two films, is a sort of fugue on Shakespearean themes—a sort of A Midsummer Night’s Dream remix.
TIFF Review: ‘Safari’
Ulrich Seidl's darkly funny Safari takes aim at ignorance, puts it in the crosshairs, and pulls the trigger.
TIFF Review: ‘Before the Flood’
Leonardo DiCaprio puts his environmental activism in the spotlight in the new eco doc Before the Flood.
TIFF Review: ‘Amanda Knox’
Amanda Knox is a true crime documentary that turns the tables on the supposed ‘guilty’ parties to reveal the negligence of the media.
TIFF Review: ‘An Insignificant Man’
An Insignificant Man follows the “Indian Bernie Sanders,” Arvind Kejriwal’s, 2013 campaign for Chief Minister of Delhi.
TIFF Review: ‘The Cinema Travellers’
The Cinema Travellers harkens back to the days when movie going was primarily a collective experience.
TIFF Review: ‘Gimme Danger’
With Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch returns to the word of documentary and chronicles the music of Iggy Pop and the Stooges.
TIFF Review: ‘Karl Marx City’
Part mystery thriller, part autobiography, part meta-examination, Karl Marx City is shaped by the writings of both Bentham and Foucault.