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 »
By Todd Brown   
  

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 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 »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Respects Its Source
So. You've the director of what will soon become one of the biggest, most successful films ever created. And you've got a bit of time on your hands. So what do you do? If you're Joss Whedon - creator of... More »
By Todd Brown   
  

TIFF 2012 Review: TO THE WONDER Emotes on Our Ephemeral Existence
"Pourqoi pas Toujours?" (Why not always?) is the question on the mind of Terrence Malick in his latest emotive cinematic meditation -- it could have easily been the title. Here he is less concerned with the connections between the personal... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE SUICIDE SHOP, A Mildly Curious Oddity
Animation was featured quite prominently at this year's PiFan, with Japanese works such as Gyo, Rainbow Fireflies, and Blood C: The Last Dark, not to mention some retrospectives on the Space Battleship Yamamoto series and Czech animation. Sadly, by... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: SMASHED Faces the Awkward Side of Sobriety
Young and in love, married couple Kate and Charlie Hannah like to get smashed. Like GG-Allin-meeting-your-Christian-parents smashed, someone is going to vomit and piss themselves at some point in the night. They spend their days in bars getting drunk... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: REALITY Counts the Cost of TV Stardom
In his 2008 Cannes Grand Prix-winning Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone took us deep into a crime-ridden community to give an intimate taste of modern Italian society. In his follow-up four years on, Garrone again plays tour guide to the Italian... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THALE, A Mythical Creature From Norway
What do you say to a naked lady -- especially one who emerges from a bathtub filled with a milky white substance, and a hose stuck in her mouth? If you're Elvis (Erlend Nervold), a neophyte worker with No... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: A ROYAL AFFAIR is an Incredible Epic
To be frank, A Royal Affair is easily one of the best films I have seen this year, and there is little doubt it will end up in my top five. I say this with such conviction for a... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: BAD 25 Celebrates Michael Jackson, Recording Artist
It's not so far into Bad 25 when you realize just what kind of film it's going to be - exuberant, energizing, even at times elegiac, this is very much a straight ahead celebration of a particularly exceptional recording.For the last two... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: THE BRASS TEAPOT Has Faith in American Middle Class Virtue
The Brass Teapot feels like something that Spielberg would have produced in the mid to late 1980s. It mixes the overall story themes and narrative structure of Gremlins with the goofy morality play of The 'Burbs and the money sense of... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: HERE COMES THE DEVIL, And He's Looking For Sex
Here Comes the Devil is only the second film I'm seen by writer-director Adrián García Bogliano, following a recent viewing of his "geriatric lunatics with nitroglycerine" horror movie Cold Sweat only a few weeks ago. Seeing both films in such... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: HELLBENDERS Raises a Little, Uh, Hell
"I'm a woman, and you're a Catholic. Everything I do is a sin." -- A taste of the in-your-face comedy on display in J.T. Petty's Hellbenders.Based upon the writer-director's own graphic novel, and pitched somewhere between The Evil Dead and Ghostbusters... More »
  

TIFF 2012 Review: JUST THE WIND Tells an Incredibly Sad Story
Just The Wind is the kind of film that ought to be experienced rather than enjoyed. It offers a look at the lives of the Romani people living in Hungary, and is based on true events in which Romani... More »
By Hugo Ozman   
  
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