Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: The Water Man directed by David Oyelowo David Oyelowo made his feature directorial debut at TIFF with The Water Man, a kid-adventure story that is a little bit The Goonies, a little bit Stand By Me, and a lot The Bridge to Terabithia. Oyelowo sets a decent-sized task for himself, tackling not only an emotional family-in-crisis story, By Sarah • Sep 23, 2020 02:19 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Best of TIFF 2020: Shiva Baby is a loving ode to "neurotica" Imagine being told you "look like Gwyneth Paltrow on food stamps, and not in a good way" by your mother minutes after you walk into a sombre family event. Barely 30 seconds later, you unexpectedly spot your "sugar daddy" talking to your real father in the By Joanna • Sep 18, 2020 03:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Another Round (Druk) Another Round reunites the Danish dream-team behind The Hunt: writer/director Thomas Vinterberg, screenwriter Tobias Lindholm, and actors Thomas Bo Larsen and Mads Mikkelsen for a middle-aged drinking buddies tale. It follows Martin (Mikkelsen), Tommy (Larsen), Peter (Lars Ranthe), and Nikolaj (Magnus Millang), four friends embarking on an alcohol-fueled journey By Sarah • Sep 18, 2020 03:05 pm
Maple Leaf Intro for September 18, 2020 Dear Gossips, I’ve seen several films this week (virtually) at TIFF – among them I Care A Lot, which Sarah just reviewed yesterday. It’s dark, it’s hilarious, and Rosamund Pike is exhilarating, I’m obsessed with her. But the best film I’ve seen at TIFF this year By Lainey • Sep 18, 2020 09:17 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Shadow in the Cloud Well, here it is, the most ridiculous movie I’ve seen from TIFF this year. Shadow in the Cloud stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Maude Garrett, a female pilot in World War II tasked with a secret mission. She joins a transport flight from New Zealand to Samoa, her arm By Sarah • Sep 17, 2020 03:34 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: I Care a Lot And the “Most Unexpected Film of TIFF 2020” award goes to I Care a Lot, which sounds like a drama about elder abuse but is, in fact, a wildly dark, pitch black comedy about terrible people doing terrible things. Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike at her most deliciously mean) is a By Sarah • Sep 17, 2020 11:20 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: I Am Greta Swedish documentarian Nathan Grossman happened upon then 15-year-old Greta Thunberg just as she was beginning her “school strike for climate” in Stockholm in 2018. He began documenting Thunberg’s strike, and ended up recording her meteoric year as she rose to international prominence as a climate activist, culminating in her By Sarah • Sep 16, 2020 12:55 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Zendaya’s Big TIFF Deal It was expected that this would be a slower festival season for acquisitions because of the pandemic. But if there’s anything that most of us did more of during the pandemic, it was Netflix. And Netflix needs more content. So it seems like they showed up (virtually) at TIFF By Lainey • Sep 16, 2020 11:11 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Pieces of a Woman On paper, Pieces of a Woman is awards season catnip. An emotionally grand yet intimately domestic portrait of a family in crisis after an unspeakable tragedy, Pieces of a Woman has long, show-stopping monologues and unceasing conflict for actors to play against a backdrop of bleak cityscapes, all things that By Sarah • Sep 15, 2020 03:12 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: Get the Hell Out Gonzo zombie action movies aren’t for everyone, but in the vein of South Korea’s Train to Busan and Japan’s One Cut of the Dead comes Taiwan’s Get the Hell Out, a bonkers zombie action comedy/political satire that uses basically every trick in the book. Written By Sarah • Sep 14, 2020 03:13 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The pointed shot selection of The Way I See It The Way I See It, Dawn Porter’s documentary about former White House photographer Pete Souza and his somewhat surprising Instagram crusade against Donald Trump, was basically a two-hour tear-fest for me. That’s why Joanna wrote the more critical, objective review. Part of my brain kind of shut down By Sarah • Sep 14, 2020 01:31 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews The Way I See It: When “a thousand words” is great, but is it enough? Hot off her Marriage Story Oscar win, Laura Dern “returns” to TIFF – virtually – as a producer of the documentary The Way I See It. The film spins the camera back around at former Chief Official White House Photographer, Pete Souza, and marks Laura’s first producer credit on a feature By Joanna • Sep 14, 2020 12:02 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Halle Berry gets a deal As expected when she was photographed in LA a few weeks ago, Halle Berry was the Variety cover story last week ahead of TIFF and the premiere of her directorial debut Bruised. The piece is a profile of Halle’s ambition as a director and her passion for the film, By Lainey • Sep 14, 2020 11:19 am
Movie Reviews and Previews TIFF Review: One Night in Miami Adapted by Kemp Powers from his own play and directed by Regina King, One Night in Miami is a fictionalization of a night in February 1964 when Cassius Clay (Eli Goree, Riverdale and Ballers) becomes the heavyweight champion of the world after a surprise victory over Sonny Liston. After the By Sarah • Sep 11, 2020 10:40 am
