TIFF 2012 Review: THE BAY
When it was announced that Barry Levinson was going to be having a film as part of the TIFF Midnight Madness slate, and that it would be a found footage horror piece about infected water, I admit I wasn't expecting... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE ACT OF KILLING
Easily one of this decade's most important and most harrowing documentaries, The Act of Killing is a shattering take on the nature of evil.The conceit of the documentary is unique to the form - filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer traveled to Indonesia... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
The trailer for David O. Russell's follow up to his Oscar nominated The Fighter, combined with the twee title, makes Silver Linings Playbook to be a horrible film about crazy people in love.Its a credit both to Russell, a fine... More »
  

TIFF 2012: Twitch's Festival Mega Wrap Rounds Up All the Reviews
No doubt about it, the 2012 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival was an affair to remember. With hundreds of memorable films, Twitch was by your side throughout, clocking in more than five dozen reviews. We've got links... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: ABCs OF DEATH
The anthology film, that strange form of film where a number of directors assemble to tell their own take on a given subject, are strange cinematic beasts. On the one hand, they play like mini festivals, a cinematic buffet, or... More »
  

TIFF 2012: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK Leads Award Winners
As the Toronto International Film Festival draws to a close and our weary team will return to their homes, families and regular day jobs tomorrow the festival announced the award winners. The People's Choice trophy went to David O. Russell's... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: BYZANTIUM is Stuck Between Worlds
Two sisters try to lay low in Dublin while being pursued by long-coated inspectors. Having committed a rather kinetic and conspicuous murder in the opening sequence of the film, the Webb sisters are actually a pair of highland blood suckers, a 200 year... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE LORDS OF SALEM Is a Slick Satanic Head Trip
It appears that Rob Zombie may have been studying up on his David Lynch lately as the metal-head-turned-filmmaker's latest is more head trip than it is horror. That's not to say The Lords of Salem doesn't have plenty of... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: PENANCE Is A Soapy But Intense Study Of Grief
Losing a child is the worst possible fear of any parent, losing their child by violence the worst possible iteration of that fear. And so it is that Asako is consumed by grief and anger when her young daughter Emili... More »
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TIFF 2012 Review: MOTORWAY Speeds Down a Divided Highway
It was way back in September 2009 when we first reported that director Soi Cheang would be following up his award-winning film Accident with a car chase action thriller entitled Motorway. Fast-forward 18 months and a trailer for the... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: COME OUT AND PLAY Drops the Ball
A textbook case of a remake failing to improve on a classic original, Come Out And Play not only loses the context of the hidden Narciso Ibáñez Serrador directed gem, which was released on the heels of the Vietnam War... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: A HIJACKING Is A Gritty Anti-Thriller
The crew of the freighter MV Rozen are in trouble. En route to Mumbai to take on cargo and fresh crew the cargo vessel has been boarded by Somali pirates, seized by a dangerous and unpredictable armed gang who demand... More »
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TIFF 2012 Review: ARGO Is Academy Catnip For Affleck
Ben Affleck may not be the easiest guy to root for. Between his meteoric rise from indie actor to A-lister, his high profile relationships with some of the most beautiful women in the world, and his Oscar win for... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Feature: WHO CAN KILL A CHILD? Continues to Horrify
[With Come Out and Play, the remake of Who Can Kill a Child?, set to debut at TIFF tonight, we decided to take another look at the original film.] I read a quote from Adam Balz over at NotComing.com that... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: FRANCES HA Finds Baumbach At His Best
Noah Baumbach has been a polarizing filmmaker since he burst onto the scene with his first high-profile feature, 2005's The Squid and the Whale. Aside from launching Jesse Eisenberg's career, that effort also familiarized the film world with Baumbach's... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: EVERYDAY And Its Lovely Minimalism
Michael Winterbottom is as varied a director as he is prolific. In just the last few years, he has directed a sweeping Indian epic (Trishna), a rollicking road trip comedy (The Trip), a globalization documentary (The Shock Doctrine), and... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: GANGS OF WASSEYPUR is the Epic Crime Saga of the Year
Pulling back, deliberately and slowly, from a soap-opera musical on the TV (involving, of all things, character introductions), the 315-minute long Gangs of Wasseypur kicks off with a single shot, Johnnie To-style unbroken assault on the stronghold of Faizal Khan with... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: AFTERSHOCK Sends Tremors Through Midnight Audience
Playing in the Midnight Madness section to a ravenous audience expecting thrills every reel, the fact that Aftershock takes its sweet-ass time to get going feels like a bold move indeed. At the outset, it appears to be another placid... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: ROOM 237 Axes Film Theory, Blows Minds
Few films have the power to truly haunt their audience in a way Stanley Kubrick's The Shining does, and continues to do, 30 years after its initial release. Like many of Kubrick's films, it received a relatively lukewarm reception upon... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: JAYNE MANSFIELD'S CAR Meanders, With Charm
Despite the impressive cast and generally positive word of mouth, I still sat down to Billy Bob Thornton's Jayne Mansfield's Car wondering, "Does anybody really need another nostalgic family comedy/drama? What could Thornton possibly have to add to this... More »
  
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