While Subservience knows how to deploy its star, it still can’t fully live up to the promise of this meta-premise or her talents as a performer.
Girls Will Be Girls is a powerful examination of how the patriarchy continues to punish girls/women for pushing back against the narrow roles prescribed.
Both TIFF films yearn to be more than what they actually are, but alas, gets stranded in a middle ground of mediocrity.
Ingrid and Martha were close friends in their youth. After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme but strangely sweet situation.
Conclave and We Live in Time are prime examples of solid filmmaking, that will likely be successful regardless of what accolades they end up garnering.
An unexpected and comical disclosure of one couple’s path, Paying For it leaves a lingering impression.
The Way We Speak is a formidable and ambitious drama that shows the power of words.
Wala has crafted a fine story, and impresses in his feature film debut with the TIFF film: Shook.
For his first report from Toronto International Film Festival, Wilson Kwong looks at two films based on true events.
In the New Republic era, a group of kids lost in the Star Wars galaxy desperately try to find their way home in Skeleton Crew.
On the last night of 1999, two high schoolers crash a New Year’s Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives when Y2K becomes a reality.
Look Into My Eyes, the new documentary, looks at another way many people seek connection: appointments with psychic mediums.
The Melbourne International Film Festival is in its 72nd year with a program of global features, shorts, documentaries, VR experiences, and classic movies.
Red Rooms is hypnotic, eerie, enticing, and undeniably repulsive, a procedural with the stifling rhythms of an addiction story or a dream.
I’ll Be Right There showcases family drama and how, within that drama, there can be something to laugh and feel good about.