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A still from DASHCAM, of a blurry figure in red, seem in the dark through a car's front window. The text on the images reads, 'TIFF Review'.

Orla Smith / September 14, 2021

TIFF Review: DASHCAM is a wild, gory ride

Host director Rob Savage returns with DASHCAM, a new pandemic horror film, featuring a main character as evil as the creatures attacking her.

A still from Good Madam, in which Tsidi, a Black woman in her thirties, holds out a tray of tea. The text on the image reads, 'TIFF Review'.

Orla Smith / September 14, 2021

Good Madam review: A haunted house in post-Apartheid South Africa

In Jenna Cato Bass’s horror film, a Black family’s domestic servitude to a white family is the stuff of nightmares.

Alex Heeney / September 14, 2021

The Gravedigger’s Wife offers a touching slice of Somali life

The Gravedigger’s Wife follows a Somali gravedigger’s desperate search for funds to finance life-saving surgery for his wife. Read Orla Smith’s interview with the film’s director here In Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s first feature, The Gravedigger’s Wife, which premiered in Semaine de la Critique at Cannes, the great irony is that Guled (Omar Abdi) earns his […]

Alex Heeney / September 13, 2021

Holocaust drama The Survivor is a showcase for Ben Foster

Ben Foster gives a complex, layered performance in The Survivor, a film that serves as Holocaust Trauma 101.

A still from Mad Women's Ball, in which two women stare each other down in a dimly lit, dingy hospital room.

Orla Smith / September 12, 2021

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.

Alex Heeney / September 12, 2021

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.

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