Tag: torontointernationalfilmfestival
Toronto 2026 Review: WOMAN UNKNOWN, Provocative Drama of Survival and Retribution
May el-Toukhy's film, by virtue of winning the Golden Lion, is an automatic entrant into the Best International Film Oscar race.
Toronto 2026 Review: MARIE MADELEINE, An Unforgettable Experience
Géssica Généus directs and stars.
Toronto 2026 Review: THE UNKNOWN, Elevated Body-Swap Thriller Is A Magisterial Masterwork
Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider lead Oscar-winner Arthur Harari's mind-bending thriller.
Toronto 2026 Review: UNION TOWN, The Power Divide Is Real
With Union Town, master documentarian Barbara Kopple completes a trilogy she began with the Oscar winning documentaries Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) and American Dream (1990). From the coal mines of Kentucky to the factories of the Midwest, Kopple shifts her focus to New York...
Toronto 2026 Interview: DIARY OF A MAD OLD MAN Director Wayne Wang on Adapting Junichiro Tanizaki, Bringing Chinese and Japanese Stars Together
Director, producer and screenwriter Wayne Wang reflects on desire, ageing and psychological temptation in what may be his final film.
Toronto 2026 Review: THE DEBUT, Community Theater Satire Is a Feature Length SNL Skit
Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti lead Jesse Eisenberg's musical comedy for A24.
Toronto 2026 Review: NOBODY'S VIOLENCE, Profoundly Engaging, Genre-Shattering, Surreal Investigation
Veteran Canadian avant garde filmmaker, Denis Côté once stated that he measures the success of his works by the number of walk-outs. It's doubtful that his wish will be satisfied with his latest. Nobody's Violence (Violence du corps de l'autre)...
Toronto 2026 Review: COWARD, Gentle Romance in Shadows of War
Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne shared the Best Actor prize at Cannes for Belgium's Oscar entry.
Toronto 2026 Review: LA BOLA NEGRA, Netflix's Ambitious War Epic Is Destined To Be an Awards Juggernaut
Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi's Cannes award-winner is a visually splendid historical drama.
Toronto 2025 Wrap: Reviews, Interviews, News, and More
Our coverage of the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is drawing to a close. A couple of weeks ago, the festival announced their 2025 award winners. We saw a lot of winners, too, which is great...
Toronto 2024 Interview: THE GESUIDOUZ Director Kenichi Ugana Talks Punk, Transnationalism, and Childhood
If you're a genre fiend with a taste for the low-budget and oddball, you might have noticed Kenichi Ugana's name appearing time and again over the past few years at festivals such as Fantasia, Japan Cuts, and Nippon Connection. With...
Toronto 2024 Review: THE SHADOW STRAYS, Another Knockout Action Extravaganza From Timo Tjahjanto
A teenage assassin, codename 13, is part of a secret organization of assassins known only as The Shadows. When she fumbles during her last mission she is suspended and shipped back to Jakarta to wait until her mentor, Umbra, calls...
Toronto 2023 Review: LAST SUMMER, Sex and Power in the Heat of the Season
While it's unusual for an auteur like Catherine Breillat to remake another, recent film, it's not a surprise, in this case, given the subject: sex and power. The filmmaker behind daring works (to say the least) such as Anatomy of...
Toronto 2023 Review: HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON, Coming of Age When You Don't Age
Sasha is a bit of a disappointment to her parents. Not only is her body a little slow to catch up to lend the family the survival help they need, she also has no desire to participate in their most...
Toronto 2023 Review: SOLO, Love That Elevates, Love That Binds
How can we know what makes us happy? More importantly, how can we trust the people around us to make us happy, support us in our happiness, provide us with the love and care we deserve? And how can we...
Toronto 2020: CITY HALL Trailer, Frederick Wiseman Documents Boston Problems, Possible Solutions
The great Frederick Wiseman makes documentaries that are restful yet restless, exploring big subjects that inevitably spiral and split into absorbing moments, capturing a time and place that may never be repeated or replicated. His latest, City Hall, recently enjoyed...
Toronto 2018 Review: SHOPLIFTERS, Scavenging on Multiple Levels
It’s a common platitude, the choices we make defining us. But what about those we don’t make? The country we live in, the class we’re born into, our family, etc. They may or may not define who we are, but...
Toronto 2015 Review: BLACK Paints A Vivid Picture Of The Violent, Seedy Side Of Brussels
When you're hanging with a posse who murder, steal, rape and share the bed with the same women and commit every crime imaginable, it's time to reassess your life. Black is a movie you will not forget once you see...
COLLECTIVE INVENTION: Meet The Sad Fish Man In Trailer For Korean Oddity
Yep. That dude's a fish. And something of a media celebrity. Welcome to the very odd world of Kwon Oh-kwang's TIFF selected comedy Collective Invention.Young and unemployed Gu is desperate to make some money and participates in a clinical trial...
Destroy All Monsters: The Last TIFF
My time as an attendee of the Toronto International Film Festival has nicely overlapped the transition from Festival Then to Festival Now, which I'd argue has taken place over just about exactly the last fifteen years, the same period for...
