Fresh off its Venice premiere, we review Stéphane Brizé’s lovely existential crisis movie with a touch of second chance romance screen, Out of Season (Hors-Saison)
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Cinemania 2023: All Your Faces, Along Came Love, and more
recap of the 2023 Cinemania Film Festival, which featured highlights like All Your Faces and Out of Season, disappointments like First Case and the Rapture, and some films in between, like Along Came Love
TIFF 23 Film Review: Katalin Moldovai’s Without Air
In Katalin Moldovai’s feature debut, Without Air, a beloved literature teacher stands to lose her job after she recommends Agnieszka Holland’s gay romance Total Eclipse (1995) to her class.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Pictures of Ghosts
Kleber Mendonça Filho’s creative nonfiction documentary Pictures of Ghosts is an ode to the public and private spaces where we live our lives and how they hold our memories.
Film Review: Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk’s Tautuktavuk (What We See)
Inuk filmmakers Carol Kunnuk and Lucy Tulugarjuk’s Tautuktavuk (What We See) is a film about female friendship and how women talk about and around trauma.
Film Review: Jules Koostachin’s WaaPaKe (Tomorrow)
Cree filmmaker Jules Koostachin’s WaaPaKe (Tomorrow) collects testimonials from residential school survivors, their children, and grandchildren to illuminate intergenerational trauma and how Indigenous people are working to heal.