Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s Ukrainian crime film The Tribe is told entirely in sign language, no translation, no subtitles.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
Best of TIFF14: Lone Scherfig’s The Riot Club explores the darker side of privilege
The lads of The Riot Club – an exclusive club for 10 of Oxford University’s richest and brightest young men – make “Gossip Girl”’s Chuck Bass, at his rapiest, look like a prince. And this is a guy who traded the love of his life for a hotel before sleeping with his barely consenting step-sister. Like Chuck Bass, these boys were raised in the lap of luxury and privilege. As they say in Britain, they’re posh, which comes with special customs, accents, and terminology.
Best of TIFF 2014: Dome Karukoski’s The Grump is a hilarious delight
Writer-Director Dome Karukoski’s new comedy, The Grump, about an aging parent feeling out of step with the modern age, is sweet, funny, and emotional.
People with dementia are more Alive Inside than you might expect
“Alive Inside” opens on a ninety-year-old woman, sitting in a chair set against a black background, explaining that she can’t remember anything. The setting is very deliberate: she suffers from dementia, and as the film will argue repeatedly throughout, people with dementia in nursing homes live in a world devoid of meaning. We watch her start listening to Louis Armstrong’s “When the Saints Go Marching In,” and she lights up, telling us it reminds her of her school days. Then, the film cuts to an old black-and-white film strip, a stand-in for the kinds of memories the music must be evoking. The stories of her life start pouring out. What the social worker Dan Cohen discovered is that music seems to unlock a previously inaccessible world of memories for people with dementia, and “Alive Inside” follows his journey to bring this joy to more people.
Radcliffe and Kazan charm in The F Word or What If friends fall in love in this Toronto-set film
Starring Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan as a pair of Torontonian friends, Michael Dowse’s film The F Word (or What If, as its known stateside) asks, what happens when you meet someone you really connect with, and want to hold onto, when dating isn’t an option?
Review: Magic in the Moonlight is a frivolous delight with Colin Firth and Emma Stone
If Magic in the Moonlight were made by any other filmmaker than Woody Allen, it would probably seem like a perfectly agreeable romantic comedy. It stars Colin Firth playing a rendition of his trademark role, the charming curmudgeon, or you know, Mr Darcy, and features a plethora of clever one-liners and lovely 1930s costumes, especially the […]