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Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
TIFF Review: 76 Days provides a new lens on the pandemic
76 Days is an urgent documentary about coronavirus pandemic that humanizes the people behind the PPE.
TIFF Review: Sweat is one of the first great films about an influencer
Magnus von Horn’s Sweat avoids the cliche of portraying an Instagram influencer as shallow and instead extends empathy to her and her fans.
TIFF Review: Violation starts out well but disappoints
Violation is a cottage-country-Canada twist on the rape-revenge genre, which explores consent and the limits of revenge.
TIFF Review: Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is romantic to a fault
Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is her most technically accomplished, accessible, and sadly, conventional and sentimental work to date.
TIFF Review: Francis Lee’s Ammonite is transporting
Ammonite, Francis Lee’s follow-up to God’s Own Country transports us back to 1800s Lyme, where pioneering paleontologist Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) spent her life finding, cleaning, and selling fossils.