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16 September 2019

Toronto 2019: Jojo Rabbit takes People’s Choice Award

Despite dividing critics following its world premiere, Jojo Rabbit won over audiences in the public vote: Joker may well have had the last laugh at Venice, but it...

Christopher Machell / Toronto

15 September 2019

Toronto 2019: Sea Fever review

★★☆☆☆ A creature feature for the environmentalist age, Irish TV and film director Neasa Hardiman’s latest project is a fun and inventive body horror that...

Christopher Machell / Toronto

12 September 2019

Toronto 2019: Jallikattu review

★★★★★ Can violence be contained through ritual? Does sanctioning violence in specific contexts purge the need for its spontaneous outburst? In his seventh feature,...

Christopher Machell / Toronto

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Toronto 2017: Valley of Shadows review

Christopher Machell / Toronto
17 September 2017

★★★★★ Using the folkloric tropes of a deep, dark wood and tales of a beast terrorising the countryside, with his feature debut Valley of...

Toronto 2017: Lady Bird review

Christopher Machell / Toronto
17 September 2017

★★★★★ Following her co-director credit on 2008’s Nights and Weekends, Greta Gerwig goes it alone directing Saoirse Ronan in Lady Bird. A lovingly observed,...

Toronto 2017: Dark River review

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17 September 2017

★★★★☆ Following this year’s The Levelling and God’s Own Country, the decaying farmlands of rural England appear to be replacing the urban concrete high-rise...

Toronto 2017: Darkest Hour review

Christopher Machell / Toronto
16 September 2017

★★☆☆☆ Unpopular with his own cabinet and under pressure to enter into peace negotiations with Nazi Germany, once he became PM Winston Churchill’s character...

Toronto 2017: Jane review

Christopher Machell / Toronto
15 September 2017

★★★★☆ When now-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall went to Tanzania to study chimpanzees, she had no scientific qualifications or formal training. Armed with a passion...