Season three of Broad City, which started out amazing and had a few very strong moments (including the coupling of Abbi and her boss Trey), was largely, unfortunately forgettable upon reflection with the only memorable moments being the aforementioned ones. Far from…
TIFF Movie Review: Molly’s Game
To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. With high voltage energy and the type of kinetic movement that possesses his screenplay’s, Aaron Sorkin’s first directorial endeavor blasts off with a bang, capturing our attention before the title card drops. In…
TIFF Review: Euphoria
To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. The English-language debut of Sweden’s Lisa Langseth and her third collaboration with actress Alicia Vikander, their latest outing together suffers from a tonally inconsistent script. Despite two powerful, if distinctly different, performances…
TIFF Movie Review: Mary Shelley
To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. There’s no worth in trying to deny that Mary Shelley is an utterly familiar biopic. Much more though in the vein of a Victorian era literary adaptation (think Far From the Madding Crowd) than something…
TIFF Movie Review: Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri
To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. Director Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) possess two crucial understandings of what creates excellence in character building. The first, is the belief in the duality of human nature and that the version…
TIFF Movie Review: Stronger
To read further TIFF 2017 coverage, go here. For the first half of David Gordon Green’s film Stronger, based on the book of the same name by Jeff Bauman (Jake Gyllenhaal), who lost both his legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing,…
TIFF Movie Review: Downsizing
Downsizing has a tonal problem in that the film we’re watching in the first act is drastically different than the one we watch in the second, which is drastically different than that of the third. At the very least, we can…
