MIFF 2024 | ‘The Substance’ review: A grotesque dissection of female self-hatred
Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley bring their A-game to Coralie Fargeat’s visionary new entry to the body-horror canon.
MIFF 2024 | ‘Oddity’ review: A monstrously good, multi-hyphenate horror feature
Writer-director Damian Mc Carthy’s second feature film is an intricately-crafted, genre-hopping cabinet of horrific curiosities.
MIFF 2024 | ‘The Shrouds’ review: David Cronenberg’s confounding exploration of personal grief
The Canadian body-horror maestro returns with a perplexing autobiographical thanatopsis that loses sight of itself within its own half-baked subplots.
MIFF 2024 | ‘The Girl With the Needle’ review: A bleak look at women’s rights… and women’s wrongs
Magnus von Horn’s Cannes competition debut is a slightly muddled but nonetheless thought-provoking and pertinent arthouse horror hybrid.
MIFF 2024 | ‘Dying’ review: Shaky family tragicomedy that still sticks its landing
Headed by a revelatory Lars Eidinger, Matthias Glasner’s autopsy of the nuclear family project handles its existentially weighty themes with equal pathos and panache.
MIFF 2024 | ‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ review: A rip-roaringly funny love letter to the arts
A vibrant, fascinating, and heartfelt look at the human drive to form communities — virtual or otherwise — in times of strife.