Posts about the Toronto International Film Festival.

TIFF 50 Review: Barrio Triste

Grabbed a ticket for this knowing nothing about the director as someone who doesn't watch a lot of music videos in general, but knew that Arca was doing the soundtrack…

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TIFF 50 Review: The Fence

I have a lot of respect and admiration for Claire Denis as a filmmaker and an artist. Given her pedigree and the films she's made over the years, who wouldn't?…

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TIFF 50 Review: Two Prosecutors

I decided to watch this knowing nothing about director Sergei Loznitsa's previous work. It had gotten some buzz at Cannes when it premiered there, and it received rave reviews from…

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TIFF 50 Review: Magellan

It's not too often that you get slow cinema that feels this grand and epic in scope. Such is the case with Magellan, which admittedly is my first experience with…

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TIFF 50 Review: Frankenstein

Mythical and epic is how I would describe this new take on the Frankenstein story by none other than Guillermo del Toro. Massive set pieces, grand costumes and even a…

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TIFF 50 Review: Nino

Nino is like a modernized take on the Cléo from 5 to 7 story, although the time-frame of Friday to Monday through which the events of Nino take place is…

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TIFF 50 Review: The Last Viking

What made Ander Thomas Jensen's previous film Riders of Justice so good was its understated approach to characterization. The backstory of the characters of Markus and his fellow crew do…

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