Toronto Film Review: ‘Rage’
An astute mixture of multi-strand drama and murder mystery that engrosses for two solid hours--before collapsing into bathos.
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Film Review: ‘Rats’
If you were among the squeamish who could never quite stomach the premise of Pixar's "Ratatouille" — in which a Parisian sewer rat becomes top chef in a tony French restaurant — then perhaps Morgan…
Film Review: ‘Colossal’
But if the writer-director's physical canvas has gotten bigger here, his imagination is otherwise in somewhat reduced form. "
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Toronto Film Review: ‘The Long Excuse’
In “The Long Excuse,” Masahiro Motoki — star of the Oscar-winning “Departures” — makes a startling comeback as a novelist who discovers his coldheartedness upon his wife’s sudden death…
Toronto Film Review: ‘Afterimage’
This respectable if somewhat monotonous drama won't be an easy sell to offshore audiences for whom avant-garde artist Wladyslaw Strzeminski is hardly a household name.
Toronto Film Review: ‘Anatomy of Violence’
In late December 2012, 23-year-old medical student Jyoti Singh was beaten and gang-raped by six men aboard a moving bus in New Dehli, eventually succumbing from her injuries two days later. The…
Toronto Film Review: ‘Karl Marx City’
Shortly after the Berlin Wall came down, the citizens of Karl Marx City voted overwhelmingly to rechristen their home Chemnitz, the name it had before becoming part of East Germany nearly four…
Toronto Film Review: ‘Blindness’
Bugajski visualizes a 1962 meeting between Julia Prajs Brystygier (Maria Mamona, stellar), the sadistic head of Department V in the Stalinist-era Ministry of Information who was in charge of…
Toronto Film Review: ‘A Death in the Gunj’
Sensharma's tale of a sensitive university student unravelling while on a week-long vacation with a crowd of cocksure relatives and family friends will resonate most with locals and Indian expats.
Toronto Film Review: ‘Werewolf’
Ranging from 1971's "Dusty and Sweets McGee" to Collin Schiffli's more recent "Animals," downbeat dramas about young addicts in love have been sufficiently numerous to constitute an entire subgenre…
Toronto Film Review: 'Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves'
With its multiple aspect ratios, on-screen block quotes, and cutaways to news broadcasts and documentary footage — not to mention a musical overture and interlude — the three-hour Quebecois political…
