Toronto Film Review: ‘Land of the Gods’ (Dev Bhoomi)
Goran Paskaljevic's first non-Serbian subject since the Irish "How Harry Became a Tree" fifteen years ago is a collaboration with Indian star/co-writer Victor Banerjee.
Dennis Harvey
Toronto Film Review: ‘Fixer’
This arresting, ambivalent drama finds an aspiring Romanian journalist on ethically questionable turf as he working as a go-between for a foreign outlet.
Toronto Film Review: ‘Weirdos’
Two veteran Canadian filmmakers meet in the middle with "Weirdos," which balances director Bruce McDonald's 80s indie-hipster sensibility and scenarist Daniel MacIvor's penchant for warmer, fuzzier…
Film Review: ‘Closet Monster’
The risk-taking confidence with which Dunn weaves in sardonic magical-realist elements, not to mention the film's unpredictable yet assured approaches to style and tone, make for an auspicious debut.
Toronto Film Review: ‘Rage’
An astute mixture of multi-strand drama and murder mystery that engrosses for two solid hours--before collapsing into bathos.
Film Review: ‘Colossal’
But if the writer-director's physical canvas has gotten bigger here, his imagination is otherwise in somewhat reduced form. "
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: ‘Pyromaniac’
The fascination of puzzling out a compulsive fire-setter's motivations keeps "Pyromaniac" absorbing, even if the film itself provides precious few answers.
Toronto Film Review: ‘The Duelist’
This ludicrous costume shoot-'em-up only inflates its whopping cliches and anachronisms by placing them in the incongruously deployed IMAX format.
Toronto Film Review: ‘I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House’
An impressively if also somewhat self-defeatingly rigorous, near-abstract take on traditional ghost story terrain.
Toronto Film Review: ‘The Autopsy of Jane Doe’
A chamber horror piece in which a corpse's stillness only grows more ominously unreliable as it's dissected.
