Mélanie Laurent's The Mad Women's Ball suffers in comparison to Alice Winocour's Augustine (2011), which tackles the same story with more psychological …
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TIFF Review: Aloners is a melancholy ode to society’s loners
South Korean filmmaker Hong Seong-eun’s Aloners is a low-key film about loneliness and how capitalism takes advantage of depressed people. Click here to find …
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TIFF Review: Scarborough is one of the festival’s most stirring crowdpleasers
Scarborough, from directors Rich Williamson and Shasha Nakhai, is a big-hearted portrait of families in a low-income neighbourhood. Click here to find all of …
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Designing a journey through Oslo
Jørgen Stangebye Larsen discusses crafting Oslo, August 31st's production design and creating a geographically realistic portrait of the city. This essay is …
What is it like to work with Werner Herzog?
Editor Joe Bini, who worked with Werner Herzog on twenty-seven films, recalls what it was like to collaborate with a larger-than-life filmmaker. This is an …
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The Surrogate: Jasmine Batchelor stuns in a smart, thorny exploration of surrogacy
Jasmine Batchelor gives one of the best performances of the year in Jeremy Hersh's The Surrogate, a smart and sensitive drama about a pregnancy surrogate who …