Ben Foster has made a career out of portraying complicated men with some relationship to trauma, in as quiet and subtle way as possible. We delve deep into the obscure, the under-rated, and the best work of his career and look at what makes it great.
Essays
Thomasin McKenzie tracks every step toward independence in Leave No Trace
Increment by increment, Thomasin McKenzie tracks Tom’s journey from girl to young woman. This is the seventh piece in our Special Issue on Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace , which is now available as an ebook.
TIFF should do more for Canadian cinema
The Canadian films at TIFF this year were especially great, but the festival should have done more to bring them to the attention of critics and audiences. This is an excerpt from the ebook The Canadian Cinema Yearbook which is available for purchase here.
The top 20 acquistion titles at TIFF 18
As TIFF ’18 draws to a close, the 7R team looks back at the festival’s best films that are still searching for distribution. Check out our lists of the top 20 acquisition titles of 2017 and 2016.
Et Tu, Bathos? Julius Caesar underwhelms at the Stratford Festival
Despite strong performances from a gender blind cast, Scott Wentworth’s production is a confusing and misguided adaptation.
Cam is an intelligent and positive look at sex work
In Daniel Goldhaber and Isa Mazzei’s horror film Cam — which premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal — the villain isn’t sex work, but a camgirl’s lack of protection and agency.