Director Léa Mysius makes an impressive debut with Ava, which respectfully and unblinkingly grants Ava’s wish to be seen before she goes blind.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches reinvents Quebec horror
Simon Lavoie’s gorgeous adaptation of the popular Québécois novel, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches critiques, subverts, and reinvents the Quebec horror film.
TIFF Review: In Luk’Luk’I, Vancouver plays itself, but the Olympics don’t
Contrasting the patriotism of the Olympics with daily struggles in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Luk’Luk’I explores the shallowness of national identity.
Top 20 must-see acquisition films at TIFF17
The majority of the films that screen at TIFF have yet to be picked up for distribution in North America — or even elsewhere. Directors bring their films to the festival hoping to find an audience and a distributor to bring the film to an even bigger audience. If a film isn’t picked up for […]
TIFF17 Review: Emma Thompson shines in The Children Act
Richard Eyre’s The Children Act, starring Emma Thompson, is a strong adaptation of one of Ian McEwan’s lesser novels.
TIFF17 Review: Xavier Legrand makes a strong directorial debut with Custody
The first time eight-year-old Julien (Thomas Gioria) must spend the weekend with his father, Antoine (Dénis Ménochet), in Xavier Legrand’s Custody, it’s an ordeal. It’s the start of the new custody agreement between his parents. He doesn’t want to go, and his mother Miriam (Léa Drucker) is sympathetic to his plight, lying to Antoine that […]