Toronto 2015: ‘No Home Movie’ review
★★★☆☆ Chantal Akerman’s latest film No Home Movie (2015) opens on a shot of a tree being buffeted by the wind with a barren...
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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: Read our TIFF 40 preview
This week sees the red carpet rolling into the centre of the Ontario capital for the fortieth edition of the Toronto Film Festival. Giving...
Toronto 2014: ‘Venice’ review
★★★☆☆ Despite its title, Kiki Álvarez’s Venice (2014) is very much about Cuba. Specifically, it’s a rarely seen independent film from the country, marking...
Toronto 2014: ‘Return to Ithaca’ review
★★★☆☆ One of two films at Toronto 2014 that take in a group of friends over the course of one balmy Cuban evening, Return...
Toronto 2014: ‘Ned Rifle’ review
★★★★☆ With Henry Fool (1997), Hal Hartley introduced the world to his garrulous and hedonistic eponymous rogue who, amongst other things, impregnated an impressionable...
Toronto 2014: ‘The Face of an Angel’ review
★★★☆☆ Watching Michael Winterbottom’s The Face of an Angel (2014), it’s fascinating to try to decipher just how autobiographical it actually it is. An eclectic...
Toronto 2014: ‘Nightcrawler’ review
★★★☆☆ “If you wanna win the lottery,” claims Lou Bloom, a gaunt and greasy Jake Gyllenhaal in Dan Gilroy crime drama Nightcrawler (2014), “you’ve...
Toronto 2014: ‘Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2’ review
★★★☆☆ Whilst he may primarily be associated with the stylish Hong Kong gangster picks that have made him his name, director Johnnie To is...
