MIFF 2025 | ‘The Mastermind’ review: Smart but meandering genre deconstruction
Despite its technical competence, Kelly Reichardt’s parable against upper-class hubris is as aimless as its leading man’s thousand-yard stare.
‘Warfare’ review: A nebulous, empty disservice to the reality of war and memory
Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s harrowing wartime drama is hampered by an inscrutable lack of context and a refusal to reckon with the Iraq War’s lasting consequences.
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.
CIFF 2022 | ‘Chile ‘76’ review: A sharp, sensitive reckoning with Chile’s darkest year
Manuela Martelli draws on the fraught history of her family and home country to weave a haunting tale of life during civil wartime.
CIFF 2022 | ‘Huesera’ review: Motherhood has never been more nightmarish
As thoughtful and intricate as it is visceral, Michelle Garza Cervera’s debut horror feature makes a scream queen out of rising star Natalia Solián.
CIFF 2022 | ‘Somewhere Over The Chemtrails’ review: Absurd Czech dramedy that falls a little short
Adam Koloman Rybanský and his friends aim for the stars with their debut full-length dramedy, but get lost somewhere in the clouds (and the chemtrails) instead.
CIFF 2022 | ‘The Kings of the World’ review: Magic and menace abound in Laura Mora's mythopoeia
Colombia’s official Oscars entry for 2023 is a haunting, phantasmagoric reinvention of the Monomyth that should not be overlooked.
CIFF 2022 | ‘How To Blow Up A Pipeline’ review: A razor-sharp act of political provocation
Daniel Goldhaber’s second feature film pulls out all the stops as a defiant, sure-footed eco-terrorism thriller.
CIFF 2022 | ‘Corsage’ review: Fierce, uncompromising feminist discourse unlike any other
Vicky Krieps gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance as an empress out of time in Marie Kreutzer’s feminist fable for the ages.
CIFF 2022 | ‘Rounding’ review: Muddled and mediocre medical misfire
Alex Thompson’s disappointing second feature wastes a novel premise on substandard execution marred by indecision.
CIFF 2022 | ‘Pacifiction’ review: A Lynchian lucid dream that will leave you reeling
Catalan auteur Albert Serra returns with another intricately-crafted atmospheric drama in which answers are ever out of reach.
CIFF 2022 | ‘The Blue Caftan’ review: A tour-de-force of sensuality and emotion
“The Blue Caftan” establishes Maryam Touzani as both a vital contributor to new queer cinema and one of international film’s most capable rising auteurs.
CIFF 2022 | ‘Return to Seoul’ review: Hard-hitting truths about cross-cultural identity
Breakout star Park Ji-min electrifies Davy Chou’s much-needed exploration of what it means to truly “belong.”
CIFF 2022 | ‘All Jacked Up and Full of Worms’ review: Yup, there’s worms, all right
Alex Phillips’s directorial horror-comedy debut positions him as the poor man’s David Cronenberg… but the poor man already has David Cronenberg.
CIFF 2022 | ‘Burning Days’ review: The best white-knuckle thrill ride this side of the Mediterranean
From one of Turkey’s foremost directors and political historians comes a gripping, incisive study of how power turns men into monsters.
CIFF 2022 | 'My Policeman' review: A certified crowd-pleaser … if you ignore Harry Styles
David Dawson and Emma Corrin elevate Michael Grandage’s misguided Harry Styles hype vehicle just past mediocrity.
CIFF 2022 | ‘R.M.N.’ review: A brutal, bold and unflinching dissection of European xenophobia
Romania’s stalwart arthouse director Cristian Mungiu returns after six years to examine Europe’s rising tides of racism and xenophobia.
CIFF 2022 | ‘One Fine Morning’ review: A welcome addition to the arthouse slice-of-life canon
Mia Hansen-Løve’s intimate character study moves her one step closer to becoming one of her generation’s best writer-directors.
CIFF 2022 | ‘Raymond & Ray’ review: Heartbreak feels good in a film like this
Ethan Hawke and Sophie Okonedo shine alongside Ewan McGregor in Rodrigo García’s new tale of family and forgiveness — or lack thereof.
CIFF 2022 | ‘Decision to Leave’ review: Masterful Hitchcockian neo-noir from Korea’s finest
With far less violence and far more sentimentality than usual, “Decision to Leave” finds Park Chan-wook in a reflective mood.