Ben Foster gives a complex, layered performance in The Survivor, a film that serves as Holocaust Trauma 101.
Film Festivals
TIFF Review: The Mad Women’s Ball is a shallow look at ‘female hysteria’
Mélanie Laurent’s The Mad Women’s Ball suffers in comparison to Alice Winocour’s Augustine (2011), which tackles the same story with more psychological complexity.
Benediction thoughtfully depicts a community of gay men
Benediction may be Terence Davies’s gayest film yet: a character study of a WWI poet who keeps trying to reinvent himself and find solace.
TIFF Review: Aloners is a melancholy ode to society’s loners
South Korean filmmaker Hong Seong-eun’s Aloners is a low-key film about loneliness and how capitalism takes advantage of depressed people.
TIFF Review: Scarborough is one of the festival’s most stirring crowdpleasers
Scarborough, from directors Rich Williamson and Shasha Nakhai, is a big-hearted portrait of families in a low-income neighbourhood.
Eleven emerging actors to watch at TIFF 2021
Seventh Row’s editors pick the emerging actors to watch at TIFF 2021, in films from Benediction to The Worst Person in the World.