Film Reviews

Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.

B. P. Flanagan / September 23, 2020

TIFF Review: Akilla’s Escape is a tempered Saul Williams showcase

Charles Officer’s Akilla’s Escape works best at its most stripped back, but too often the film gets caught up in tired crime tropes.

Alex Heeney / September 22, 2020

True Mothers is one of Naomi Kawase’s best films to date, a thoughtful drama about the shame associated with unconventional motherhood.

B. P. Flanagan / September 20, 2020

Jing Wang’s directorial debut, The Best is Yet to Come, is a middle-of-the-road story on the value of journalism has little new to offer.

B. P. Flanagan / September 20, 2020

Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan’s The New Corporation is a documentary sequel to The Corporation that’s not as radical as it thinks it is.

Alex Heeney / September 17, 2020

The 2019 Iran floods are the backdrop of director Manijeh Hekmat’s often lighthearted film, Bandar Band.

Orla Smith / September 16, 2020

Jasmila Žbanic’s Quo Vadis, Aida?, a harrowing drama about the 1995 Bosnian genocide, is one of the best films of TIFF 2020. Find out why…