Toronto

★★★☆☆ You might think that not having access to the courtroom might somewhat derail a documentary whose primary focus is a legal battle. The...

★★☆☆☆ Sometimes a high concept premise can prove to be a film’s downfall, opening up a world of potential that the finish product just...

★★★★☆ Ben Rivers’ The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers began with behind-the-scenes footage from two films...

★★★★☆ “We who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.” This quote from W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz proves a useful...

★★★★☆ By his own gargantuan standards, Lav Diaz’s Golden Lion winner The Woman Who Left is a mere morsel. His second picture of 2016...

★★★☆☆ Kim Ki-duk’s career has often progressed in distinct waves – from the nasty sexual violence of his dark early work to the magical...

★★★★☆ Two thirds of the way through Ivan Sen’s Goldstone a brothel madame combats the defiance of one of her trafficked girls with some...

★★★★☆ Grief is shovelling snow in Kenneth Lonergan’s highly-anticipated third film Manchester by the Sea. The taciturn Lee (Casey Affleck) literally does it by day...