Yanillys Perez’ feature debut, which won the TIFF 16 Dropbox Award for the Discovery Section, is a work of creative nonfiction. Perez mixes magic realist voiceover with a social realist approach to its optimistic, clear-eyed, and poetic subject: Jeffrey, a charming and driven 12-year-old boy who dreams of becoming a famous reggaeton & dembow singer.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
In Women He’s Undressed, Designer Orry-Kelly finally gets his moment in the sun, and boy is he fabulous!
Gillian Armstrong’s new documentary, Women He’s Undressed, resurrects the witty and cheeky Orry-Kelly to tell his life story and illuminate the art behind his historic costume designs.
TIFF16 Review: Riz Ahmed stars in City of Tiny Lights
City of Tiny Lights, a modern noir story set in London, is a great showcase for Riz Ahmed’s talents. However, its ambition of addressing the immigrant experience and islamophobia prove more admirable than the execution.
TIFF16 Review: Killed into art? Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Daguerrotype
Kioyshi Kurosawa’s latest eerie offering, Daguerrotype, is a well-crafted aesthetic effort with little actual resonance screening in the TIFF Platform competition.
TIFF 16 Review: I Am Not Madame Bovary
Feng Xiaogang experiments with new aspect ratios in I Am Not Madame Bovary, his caustically funny satire of Chinese bureaucracy. Starring Fan Bingbing, the film feels more like a fable than a realistic tale.
TIFF16: Below Her Mouth is cringeworthy
Below Her Mouth attempts provocation and frank depictions of lesbian sex, but it forgets the emotion in its love story.