reviews
Andrew W.K.'s 'God Is Partying' Features Very Little Partying (but Some God)
PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2021
After receiving somewhat mixed reviews for 2018's You're Not Alone (an enjoyable but patchy comeback album that arrived after more than a d...
TIFF Review: 'Huda's Salon' Lays Bare the Absurdity of War
Directed by Hany Abu-Assad
PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2021
The first ten minutes of Huda's Salon are a revelation. This movie works through a simultaneously sympathetic and satirical lens to subtly...
TIFF Review: 'Medusa' Sets Its Gaze Upon Modern Standards of Perfection
Directed by Anita Rocha da Silveira
PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2021
We all know the name Medusa: a being of Greek mythology with venomous snakes in place of hair and whose gaze turns men to stone. Some schol...
'The Card Counter' Deals a Full House of Great Performances
Directed by Paul Schrader
PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2021
Paul Schrader loves his isolated and troubled leading men. The writer-director has had a successful career creating characters shrouded in...
Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow, but Kacey Musgraves Finds Peace on 'star-crossed'
PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2021
Kacey Musgraves officially ushers in sad girl fall with the release of star-crossed, her highly anticipated follow-up to the critical succe...
Homeshake Soundtracks an Endless Winter on 'Under the Weather'
PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2021
Before the rest of us got real familiar with staying indoors last year, Homeshake's Peter Sagar was way ahead of the curve. Slipping into a...
Low Remain at the Top of Their Creative Peak on 'HEY WHAT'
PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2021
Double Negative, Low's hugely celebrated 2018 LP, saw the Duluth, MN-based band moving even further away from their trademark minimal slowc...
TIFF Review: 'As in Heaven' Is a Gripping Meditation on the Fragility of Life
Directed by Tea Lindeburg
PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2021
Danish author Marie Bregendahl was known for leaning into the grotesque. Chronicling the day-to-day life of Danish farmers in the 19th cent...