TIFF
22nd of May
Koen Mortier
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2010
Films about people coming to terms with death in the afterlife are spotty at best, often dismissed as pretentious missteps, given the weigh...
Small Town Murder Songs
Ed Gass-Donnelly
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2010
What is most admirable about Ed Gass-Donnelly's sophomore outing is that it presents itself as a traditional small town murder mystery &mda...
127 Hours
Danny Boyle
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2010
Before anything has a chance to happen in Danny Boyle's 127 Hours, the screen is split in three and images of people going to work or runni...
Meek's Cutoff
Kelly Reichardt
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2010
With the sparse, barren, open terrain of the Oregon Trail in 1845 — cracked dirt, dusty and littered with dried-up logs and patches o...
Brighton Rock
Rowan Joffe
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2010
When people forget about the new and embrace the past far too tightly, great things rarely occur. The '60s might have been happening (at th...
Passion Play
Mitch Glazer
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2010
If there's something important to know about Mitch Glazer, it's that he wrote what is almost certainly the greatest Christmas feature film...
Three
Tom Tykwer
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2010
If nothing else, Tom Tykwer's latest, hyper-realized testament to rule breaking abandon proves that even at his worst, he's still a better...
The Sleeping Beauty
Catherine Breillat
PUBLISHED Sep 22, 2010
Despite never quite matching the sheer visceral impact and jolting brilliance of her emotional rape allegory, A Ma Sœur, Catherine Br...