Alex Heeney reviews writer-director Gunnar Vikane’s film War Sailor, which is the best kind of war movie: a character drama that happens amidst war, focusing most on how the characters are changed by the atrocities over the years.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Ten must-see shorts at TIFF 2022
Our annual feature on the best must-see shorts at TIFF 2022 highlights films from around the world and across forms, including Bigger on the Inside and The Flying Sailor.
Stonewalling Film Review: Surviving an unwanted pregnancy
In Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka’s film Stonewalling, China’s two-child policy casts a long shadow on twenty-year-old Lynn who finds herself with an unwanted pregnancy — and loses most of her agency along the way.
Full Time: a heart-pounding thriller from Éric Gravel
Éric Gravel’s second feature film is a heart-pounding thriller about a single working mom pushed to her breaking point.
Fantasia Review: Just Remembering tells a romance in reverse
Japanese writer-director Daigo Matsui’s Just Remembering is a romance told in reverse order that not only acknowledges COVID but incorporates some sense of how it’s changed our lives into the film’s store.
Fantasia Review: Nuno Beato’s My Grandfather’s Demons
The first animated feature out of Portugal, Nuno Beato’s My Grandfather’s Demons, uses digital and stop-motion animation to tell a story of intergenerational trauma on the border between reality and fairytale.