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

Women He's Undressed, Orry-Kelly

Laura Anne Harris / September 20, 2016

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.

City of Tiny Lights, Riz Ahmed

Alex Heeney / September 15, 2016

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.

Daguerrotype, Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Mary Angela Rowe / September 15, 2016

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.

I Am Not Madame Bovary, Fan Bingbing

Mary Angela Rowe / September 11, 2016

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.

Below Her Mouth

Alex Heeney / September 11, 2016

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.

After Love, Joachim Lafosse

Alex Heeney / September 10, 2016

TIFF16: After Love is a tense post-marital drama

After Love, the follow-up to The White Knights from director Joachim Lafosse, is a tense and heartbreaking post-marital drama about a couple with twins who have decided to break up, but haven’t quite managed to sever all their ties, starting with their home.

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