TIFF 2021 Review: ‘Where Is Anne Frank’Ari Folman Spins A Vibrant But Muddled Fantasy...
If you know the name Ari Folman at all, it's probably for his stunning animated anti-war film Waltz with Bashir, a biopic of sorts that...
Review: ‘The Eyes Of Tammy Faye’Jessica Chastain Redeems The Televangelist Icon Through Laughter And...
Having grown up a kid in the '80s, when televangelism was new and at its peak, it was impossible to miss the presence of...
Review: ‘Cry Macho’A Modest Charmer That Finds Clint Eastwood Staying True To His Tough...
The irony of Clint Eastwood starring in an adaptation of N. Richard Nash's Cry Macho, about an old cowboy who rejects his tough guy...
Review: ‘Blue Bayou’Justin Chon Brings Attention To A Hot-Button Issue With Hard-Hitting Immigrant Love...
"I chose you", Antonio LeBlanc (writer/director/star Justin Chon) tells his stepdaughter Jessie (Sydney Kowalske) in Chon's third feature, his most dramatic and confident work...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Survivor’Ben Foster Rolls With The Punches In Barry Levinson's Rugged...
The Survivor is one of those adult-oriented, mature dramas that don't come around too often anymore. Fitting, that it is directed by veteran filmmaker...
Review: ‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’Nicolas Cage And Sion Sono's Bonkers Genre Mashup Gets Ballsy...
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2021 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Prisoners of the Ghostland opens in theaters and VOD on September...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Starling’Melissa McCarthy Tangles With Grief And An Angry Bird In...
“Birds are tricky,” says Jack Maynard (Chris O’Dowd) to his pregnant wife Lilly (Melissa McCarthy) early on in Theodore Melfi's The Starling. He's not referring...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘Lakewood’Naomi Watts Can't Run Far Enough To Save Philip Noyce's Ridiculous...
Screenwriter Chris Sparling knows his way around a single-person thriller, his Buried script providing Ryan Reynolds one of his finest early-career performances. Veteran director Philip Noyce...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain’Benedict Cumberbatch Is The Quirky Feline...
It can't be coincidence my friend's cat came scurrying into my room just as The Electrical Life of Louis Wain was starting, can it? The peculiar...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Guilty’Jake Gyllenhaal Leads Antoine Fuqua's Intense, Contained Cop Thriller
A contained thriller such as Antoine Fuqua's The Guilty, itself a remake of a 2018 Danish film, needs a powerhouse central performance to carry it...