Film Review: Tim Burton’s ‘Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children’
Not since "Sweeney Todd" have the studios found such a perfect match of material for Tim Burton, Hollywood's most iconic auteur.
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San Sebastian Film Review: ‘The Odyssey’
If you're going to title your film "The Odyssey," you need to be pretty certain it's got enough narrative heft and thrust to justify the Homeric allusion.
Toronto Film Review: ‘Kékszakállú’
There's a limited market for the Argentinean helmer's delicate 72-minute bauble, but festivals and more adventurous venues will want to dive right in.
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Toronto Film Review: ‘Wùlu’
Daouda Coulibaly's auspicious debut is structured like so many local-area tales, but delivered with a pulse-pounding thrust unique among African cinema.
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.
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…
Toronto Film Review: ‘The Sixth Beatle’
The Beatles, for all their utopian good vibes, were no strangers to the dark side of the ’60s. They were, of course, at the center of a rather obsessive conspiracy theory — the first one after the…
Toronto Film Review: ‘A Skyjacker’s Tale’
A country club massacre, an audacious kidnapping at 20,000 feet, Vietnam, the Black Panther Party, coerced confessions, white justice: There's no shortage of compelling angles to the story of Ishmael…
Film Review: ‘Guilty Men’ (Pariente)
A handsome, occasionally suspenseful tale set in Colombia's rural northeast, where locals are in an uneasy relationship with shady paramilitary forces.
Film Review: ‘Generation Startup’
The words “Internet” and “commerce” go together like “baseball” and “game,” and in 2001, the great documentary “Startup.com” set the gold standard for movies about on-line entrepreneurs. Shot in 1999…
