TIFF
Laggies
Lynn Shelton
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2014
Laggies continues director Lynn Shelton's progression towards broader mainstream comedy, abandoning much of the improvisation and nuanced c...
Elephant Song
Charles Binamé
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2014
Charles Binamé's Elephant Song has accumulated a lot of buzz going into this year's TIFF thanks to a much-hyped performance by Xavier Dolan...
Tusk
Kevin Smith
PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2014
To steal a line from Kevin Smith's Hollywood Babble-On, the Clerks director's newest foray into the horror genre is a prime example of "shi...
This is My Land
Tamara Erde
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2014
In structure and execution, Tamara Erde's freshman documentary feature This is My Land is very much like a social sciences thesis, starting...
Not My Type
Lucas Belvaux
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2014
Since directing the trilogy of films, On the Run, The Amazing Couple and After Life back in 2002, wherein the same characters were placed i...
Beyond the Lights
Gina Prince-Bythewood
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2014
At first blush, Beyond the Lights might seem like an updated version of The Bodyguard. This is winkingly alluded to in an early scene, but...
The Little Death
Josh Lawson
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2014
Translated into English as "the little death," the French euphemism "la petite mort" refers to the blissed-out, semi-conscious state one ex...
The Cobbler
Thomas McCarthy
PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2014
The premise of Thomas McCarthy's follow up to The Station Agent and Win Win is the type of story live action Disney has been putting out si...