Film Review: ‘Leatherface’
This "origin story" is a somewhat mixed bag, but it's also an earnest and well-crafted attempt at franchise course-correction.
Reviews
Film Review: Stephen King’s ‘1922’
A largely satisfying adaptation of Stephen King's novella about unappeasable guilt triggered by the mortal sin of murder.
San Sebastian Film Review: ‘Memoir of Pain’
"Words don't describe what eyes have seen," we're told in "Memoir of Pain," esteemed French writer-director Emmanuel Finkiel's notably ambitious interpretation of Marguerite Duras's autobiographical…
San Sebastian Film Review: ‘The Charmer’
The visa-motivated courtship of convenience has been the subject of many a romantic comedy, though when you consider the bleak reality of the situation, it's hardly a laughing matter.
Film Review: ‘Pin Cushion’
Cinema was littered with tales of teenage mean girls well before Tina Fey put a tidy name to their ilk in 2004 — rarer, however, are stories that extend their reign of terror decades past the…
Toronto Film Review: ‘Omertà’
While you're watching it, Mehta's freely imagined biopic provides a fascinating Rorschach of a figure who is—unfortunately—truly a man for our times.
Toronto Film Review: ‘Soldiers. Story From Ferentari’
A likably ramshackle, seemingly semi-improvised "free adaptation" of co-scenarist/star Adrian Schiop's semi-autobiographical novel about his experiences in Bucharest's impoverished Roma slum.
Toronto Film Review: ‘Scaffolding’
Quite unlike anything else in the current Israeli cinema, this gripping, realist drama focuses on Israel's underclass, kids from blue collar, Sephardi families, beset with behavioral and attitude…
Toronto Film Review: 'The Other Side of Everything'
Turajlić's guide to the country's governance after the death of Tito up to the present day is her mother, Srbijanka Turajlić, a renowned pro-democracy activist and former Belgrade University…
Toronto Film Review: ‘The Seen and Unseen’
Steeped in theatrics, fantasy and psychology, “The Seen and Unseen” is haunting in its evocation of the supernatural communion between twin siblings, as Indonesian writer-director Kamila Andini…
Film Review: ‘Shot’
Jeremy Kagan’s gun-control drama "Shot" opens with a bullet piercing a man’s back. There’s a problem. The bang should be louder. So sound mixer Mark (Noah Wyle) hits rewind, and as the squib rushes…
