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

Brett Pardy / September 13, 2019

TIFF19 review: In Made In Bangladesh , the women who make your clothes call for justice

Neither hopeless nor sugar-coated, Rubaiyat Hossain’s Made in Bangladesh is a compelling drama about the difficulties of attaining justice.

Brett Pardy / September 12, 2019

TIFF19 review: Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger, a perfect introduction to a legend’s activist cinema

Alanis Obomsawin caps off a cycle of five films, seven years in the making, about Indigenous children’s rights in Canada , and it’s one of the best acquisition titles at TIFF19.

B. P. Flanagan / September 12, 2019

TIFF19 review: White Lie is a chilling, meticulous study of duplicity

College girl pretending to have cancer to raise money for… something, is an incredibly dicey, tense premise which Calvin Thomas and Yonah Lewis direct the hell out of.

Orla Smith / September 12, 2019

TIFF19 review: Clemency, a harrowing drama about avoiding questions of morality by hiding behind the law

Chinonye Chukwu’s Clemency is an unflinchingly honest portrayal of the process of a modern day execution

Orla Smith / September 10, 2019

TIFF19 review: Geraldine Viswanathan shines in Hala

Minhal Baig’s Hala is an observant character study of a young and curious woman trying to find her identity, torn between a devoutly religious Pakistani family and her life as an American-born teen in high school.

Brett Pardy / September 9, 2019

TIFF19 review: The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open uses real-time duration for poignant effect

Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open explores difficulties in communication between two Indigenous women with very different viewpoints and life experiences

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