Toronto 2015: ‘The Kind Words’ review
★★☆☆☆ During the Q & A session which followed the international première of Shemi Zarhin’s The Kind Words (2015) on the opening night of...
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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...
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...
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,...
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Toronto 2015: ‘One Floor Below’ review
★★★☆☆ The subject of guilt is one that cinema often returns to for its potential to be expressed in inventive and thought-provoking ways. In...
Toronto 2015: ‘A Tale of Love and Darkness’ review
★★★☆☆ Tackling the period surrounding the British Mandate for Palestine and the subsequent formation of the State of Israeli is a very brave choice...
Toronto 2015: ‘Wedding Doll’ review
★★★★☆ Nitzan Giladi’s fantastic debut feature Wedding Doll (2015), premièring at Toronto this year, is the second Israeli film in as many years to...
Toronto 2015: We Monsters review
★★☆☆☆ Deceit and callousness abound in Sebastian Ko’s psychological drama We Monsters (2015). It begins with an effective, open question which Marcus Seibert’s screenplay...
Toronto 2015: ‘The Waiting Room’ review
★★★☆☆ Igor Drljača’s The Waiting Room (2015) bears no little resemblance to its cowed protagonist, Jasmin (Jasmin Geljo). A sad clown of a man,...
Toronto 2015: ‘Song of Songs’ review
★★★☆☆ An elegy for both the lost world of the Jewish shtetl and the fanciful idylls of childhood, the exquisitely lensed Song of Songs...
Toronto 2015: ‘The Sky Trembles…’ review
★★★★☆ The unsettling skeleton of Paul Bowles’ short story A Distant Episode gives a narrative framework to Ben Rivers latest odyssey into the ethereal...
