After the bright, light, summery holiday special that was Glass Onion, the Knives Out franchise returns to its gothic roots with a wintry whodunit that, for some at least, might endure as the the best one yet. Where the first and second used the murder-mystery as a jumping-off point for some very funny contemporary satire,…
If Roofman wasn’t a true story, it would be hard to believe. World premiering tonight at the Toronto Film Festival, this Paramount release stars Channing Tatum as Jeffrey Manchester, an Army 82nd Airborne veteran who turned to crime to try and support his wife and three kids after failing to assimilate back into society when…
Not knowing a thing about the new film Bad Apples, which is having its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, it took me awhile to realize “Oh wait, this is really a very, very dark comedy.” So once I got what director Jonathan Etzler and writer Jess O’ Kane were up to, I could…
Sports movies are fast becoming a cliché, if they ever weren’t. The triumph-against-all-odds stories so prevalent in many of them is hard to make fresh. And coming off two last year — the wrestling drama Unstoppable that merged family with domestic abuse, and the female boxing story The Fire Within — both had similar trajectories,…
It has been a whirlwind four months for Taiwanese American director Shih-Ching Tsou, whose debut feature Left-Handed Girl makes its North American premiere at TIFF this weekend. The emotional family drama revolves around a single mother and her two daughters who are coming to terms with city life in Taipei after several years of living…
Belgian filmmaker Tim Mielants’ feature Steve, starring Cillian Murphy, has been added to the Platform lineup for this year’s Toronto Film Festival. Steve was among nine titles added to the Platform competition Tuesday morning. Those titles are: Farnoosh Samadi’s Between Dreams and Hope, Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s Bouchra, György Pálfi’s Hen, Pauline Loquès’ Nino,…