drama
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Best Man Down
Everyone has that friend. The guy that’s always too loud, too drunk, makes fun situations better, makes serious...
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Prisoners
Denis Villeneuve, the French-Canadian director of Polytechnique and Incendies, has seemingly hit the jackpot with his English language...
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I Used to Be Darker
A natural reaction towards conflict is avoiding the threat by escaping, a common theme found within Matt Porterfield’s...
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C.O.G.
Kyle Patrick Alvarez (Easier With Practice) has been gifted the very first crack at translating the work of...
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Museum Hours
In director Jem Cohen’s Museum Hours, a late-middle-aged Viennese museum patrolman and a Canadian tourist share a ruminative...
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Interview: Haifaa Al-Mansour of Wadjda
Haifaa Al-Mansour’s new film, Wadjda, is the first movie in history to be filmed entirely in Saudi Arabia,...
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Wadjda
In perhaps the most definitive image of Wadjda, the titular 10-year-old girl’s bright, zealous eyes track a green...
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Inside Story
The new film Inside Story, a joint effort from South Africa and Kenya, tells the story of a...
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A Field in England (TIFF Review)
Over the last five years, Ben Wheatley has shown himself to be someone hard to pin down. His...
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Blue Caprice
The endeavor of dramatizing the events of something as horrific as the 2002 Washington D.C. killing spree of...
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Il Futuro
Alicia Scherson’s Il Futuro (The Future) is an adaptation of a Chilean novel by Roberto Bolano about two...
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Adore
Premiering at the Sundance Film Festival under the name Two Mothers (an arguably more fitting title) has been...
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Wasteland
Rowan Athale attempts to breathe some new life into the heist genre by peppering it with dry British...
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Stranger by the Lake
Never leaving the rural French lakeside setting on which it opens, Alain Guiraudie’s new film Stranger by the...
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A Teacher
A Teacher is in many ways a reversal of the story that is normally told; featuring an older...