Dress to Kill: Strickland Strikes Again in Luscious Homage to 70s Cinema
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the...
Love Like Poison: Reygadas Returns with Frustrating but Forthright Marital Drama
Interminable? Yes. Navel-gazing? Perhaps. But furious in its candor? Absolutely. Carlos Reygadas returns for...
The French Publisher’s Wife: Assayas Straddles Digital Criminals and Corporate Cannibals in Playful Bon Mot
Hardly a stranger to the back room wheeling and dealing...
An Outpost of Progress: Denis Gets Daring with Esoteric Sci-Fi
Of Claire Denis’ impressive English language debut High Life, perhaps a famous line from Alien...
I Think They Know Her Alias: Lelio Revisits His Breakout Title with English Language Remake
Chilean auteur Sebastian Lelio, who recently took home an Academy...
She Will Always Beat You: Huppert Get Homicidal in Jordan’s B-Thriller
There’s more than one way to depend on the kindness of strangers, including using...
Heartbreak Hotel: Estrangement and Reunion Synchronize in Latest Sangsoo Slice of Life
It’s a short-lived distinction to be called the latest anything from South Korean...
Touch All This Skin: Pintilie’s Hybrid Sexcapade Explores the Fleeting, Obscure Nature of Intimacy
With her narrative debut Touch Me Not, Romanian director Adina Pintilie...
Sabotage Triage: Kusama and Kidman Break the Bank in Riveting Revenge Thriller
Robert Burns’ eternal line “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft...
I Can Feel the Beale: Jenkins Does Justice to Classic Baldwin Novel
Following his history making Best Picture winner Moonlight, stakes are set high for...
To Grandmother’s House We Go: Green Succeeds with Obedient Resurrection of the Carpenter Classic
The original tagline for John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween, which...
Our final portrait before we go "mute", Franco-Turkish filmmaker team Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti made their way from Locarno Film Fest into TIFF's...
Filmmaker Ali Vatansever arrived at TIFF (a Discovery programme selection) with his sophomore film --- a feature that our Nicholas Bell suggested "should be classified as...
An official selection at the Karlovy Vary, Sébastien Pilote's The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) would receive its North American showcase at...
Italian helmer Laura Luchetti's coming-of-ager both pairs and juxtaposes the harshness and beauty of the backdrop with the realities of displacement, running towards and away...
A dozen years after he premiered his directorial debut in Cages (2006) at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, Olivier Masset-Depasse reteamed with his muse Anne...
Receiving some major acknowledgment in the form of the FIPRESCI Prize at TIFF (a Discovery Programme prize), Carmel Winters’ sophomore project comes eight years...
This year's TIFF presented two portraits about Mexico's working class. We have Alfonso Cuaron's take and then we have theatre director turned filmmaker Lila...
Making it two for two, with the premiere of Before the Frost following 2017's Papillon as TIFF premieres, Michael Noer landed in Toronto with players...
Domestic Disturbance: Rots Presents a Puzzle with Portrait of Troubled Woman
Female agency and fractured fellowship form the basis of Dutch director Esther Rots’ sophomore...
Maya Love is Your Love: Hansen-Love Stumbles with Sluggish Romantic Drama
Following on the heels of her most widely acclaimed feature to date, 2016’s Things...
This Land is Our Land: Vatansever Presents Caustic Portrait of Urban Gentrification
Politically and economically motivated displacement is at the heart of Turkish director Ali...
Wheels of Desire: Mortier Breaks Silence with Funereal Portrait of Dead Celebrity
It was a major punchline in Mike Nichols’ version of The Birdcage (1996)...
I See a Dark Stranger: Asante Examines Obscured Holocaust Perspective in Anglo Period Piece
British director Amma Asante rounds out a thematic trilogy of sorts...
The Moor the Merrier: Schleinzer Returns with Incendiary Portrait of Indentured Servitude
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer returns with his long-awaited sophomore film Angelo, a follow-up...
Or Else It Gets the Hose Again: Qubeka Recuperates a Rebel from Apartheid South Africa
South Africa’s film industry remains somewhat on the fringe of...
Art to Art: Haro Conjures Another Character Study in Crowd-pleasing Drama
Much like his contemporary Dome Karukoski, Finnish director Klaus Härö is one of his...
Hope to It: De Angelis Tackles Child Trafficking in Latest Neapolitan Drama
Life may be bleak, but it’s also textured with fascinating possibilities in the...
Bury the Sins & Wash Them Clean: Baigazin Presents the Dysfunction of Isolation in Simmering Drama
Over the last decade, several prominent voices out of...
Sifting through the pu-pu platter of cinematic offerings in the Toronto International Film Festival’s program is no small feat, even after the venue has...