Romanian auteur Radu Muntean’s entirely skippable One Floor Below follows a car insurance salesman whose nosiness gets the better of him. After eavesdropping too deliberately on the couple downstairs’ fight one night, he discovers that the woman is dead.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
TIFF15: How Heavy This Hammer explores masculinity in crisis ****
Mary Angela Rowe reviews one of the best films of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival from Canadian director Kazik Radwanski. To discover more great Canadian Cinema, take the Canadian Cinema Challenge and get a copy of our ebook on Canadian film, The 2019 Canadian Cinema Yearbook here.
NFB short Rock The Box **1/2: unclear intentions in promising feminist short
Rhiannon Rozier has a degree in political science and Latin American history, but her true passion is connecting to people through music. She is a DJ and creates electronic dance music (EDM), but she’s also a woman, working in a male-dominated genre. Katherine Monk’s National Film Board of Canada documentary short Rock the Box begins with […]
Ville-Marie is gorgeously dispassionate ***1/2
Guy Édoin’s Ville-Marie is a visually striking film with a curiously dispassionate core. The film, co-written by Édoin, tells the stories of four individuals whose lives intersect one night at Ville-Marie Hospital in Montreal. A European actress (Monica Belucci) is filming in Montreal to reconnect with her son (Aliocha Schneider), who is trying to finally learn […]
TIFF 15 Review: Mia Madre is a mediocre comedy about a female director
Nanni Moretti’s Mia Madre revolves around a female director who is juggling both director problems and regular life problems, though the film never really hits its stride.
Coming-of-age in Ontario is messy in Sleeping Giant
Andrew Cividino’s assured debut Sleeping Giant — the opening film at this year’s Cannes’ Critics Week — captures the beauty of cottage country Ontario without ever quite transcending the often stilted performances of its non-actors. The film follows Adam (Jackson Martin) who is up north with his family for the summer where he meets two trouble-making […]