Tag: Review
TIFF ’22 Review Dispatch #2: The Venice Films – ‘The Whale’, ‘The Son’, ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’
When the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was founded in 1976, it was originally called The Festival of Festivals, and the idea behind the fest…
TIFF ’22 Review Dispatch #1: The Big Three – ‘The Fablemans’, ‘Glass Onion’, ‘The Woman King’
Two weeks before TIFF I wrote a preview piece for Rotten Tomatoes that listed the 11 Toronto premieres with the biggest buzz, and I ranked…
Film Review: An Cailín Ciúin (The Quiet Girl)
The title is somewhat misleading, for the young girl at the centre of the story talks plenty when she feels safe. There’s just not many…
Documentary Review: Still Working 9 to 5 (2022)
If you are a woman, it is highly probable that one has endured one or more unfortunate conditions of a patriarchal workforce: Sexual harassment, office…
Festival de Cannes Review: Crimes of the Future (2022)
Crimes of the Future was the name of a short David Cronenberg made in 1970. The inspiration for the title came from Henning Carlsen’s classic…
Festival de Cannes Review: Triangle of Sadness (2022)
Triangle of Sadness is Ruben Östlund’s sixth feature to date and, by far, his most expensive. It is also his weakest work thus far, and I…
Festival de Cannes Opening Film Review: Final Cut (2022)
As I mentioned in my text about Annette, the opening film at the Cannes Film Festival is generally nothing to write home about. This year’s opener was the…
Film Review: Paris, 13th District / Les Olympiades (Jacques Audiard)
Jacques Audiard’s speciality as a director is stories about violent men who do not have an innate taste for violence. So it’s something of a…
Sundance 2022 Double Bill Review: Call Jane (Phylis Nagy) & The Janes (Tia Lessin/Emma Pildes)
Women’s rights and the power to exercise choice was a recurring topic at this year’s Sundance Film Festival seen in more than just a couple…
Sundance 2022 Review: Am I Ok? (Tig Notaro, Stephanie Allynne)
Directed by Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne, Am I Ok? stars Dakota Johnson and Sonoya Mizuno as best friends: Lucy and Jane. The film is…
Sundance 2022 Review: The Princess (Ed Perkins)
The Princess of Wales. Lady Di. The People’s Princess. Regardless of her title, Diana Spencer was a phenomenon during her life and still continues to…
Sundance 2022 Review: The Worst Person in the World (Joachim Trier)
Having been regarded by many since its Cannes premiere as ‘one of the best films of the year’, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the…
Film Review: Licorice Pizza (2021)
Since Paul Thomas Anderson first stepped onto the filmmaking scene in the 90s, he has quickly grown a reputation of being one of the strongest…
Film Review: Pleasure (2021)
Pleasure is the first feature by Ninja Thyberg, following the eponymous short seen in 2013. Bella (née Linnéa) leaves her small, dreary Swedish town to…
