Articles by Sarah Melton

Planet In Focus Review: 'For the Birds' Glosses over Hoarding Issues

Directed By Richard Miron

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2018

For the Birds begins with home footage of Kathy Murphy and her husband Gary with a single motherless baby duck they found in their yard, an...

'Sharkwater Extinction' Continues Rob Stewart's Legacy

PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2018

When filmmaker Rob Stewart died in a tragic diving incident in 2017 while filming a sequel to Sharkwater, his friends and family knew they...

​Tiffany Haddish and Kevin Hart Just Barely Pass 'Night School'

Directed by Malcolm D. Lee

PUBLISHED Sep 28, 2018

When Teddy Walker (Kevin Hart) accidentally blows up the successful barbecue shop he was set to take over, he finds himself in a classroom...

'The Wife' Boils With the Power of Glenn Close

Directed by Björn Runge

PUBLISHED Sep 20, 2018

When celebrated writer Joe Castleman (Jonathan Pryce) wins the Nobel Prize, The Wife centres the woman sitting next to the spotlight. Easil...

TIFF Review: 'That Time of Year' Explores Drama at Danish Christmas

Directed by Paprika Steen

PUBLISHED Sep 14, 2018

A Danish christmas movie that is anything but jolly, That Time of Year does an impeccable job of capturing simmering family tensions during...

TIFF Review: 'The Fireflies Are Gone' Is a Nuanced Coming-of-Age Tale In Small-Town Quebec

Directed by Sébastien Pilote

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2018

When Léo (Karelle Tremblay), a quirky outsider with killer style and all the teenage angst in the world, skips out on dinner with her famil...

TIFF Review: 'The Fall of the American Empire' Rants About Capitalism, But Not Profoundly

Directed by Denys Arcand

PUBLISHED Sep 12, 2018

Quebec filmmaker Denys Arcand's latest, The Fall of the American Empire, is a watchable but unprofound money heist ruminating on capitalism...

TIFF Review: 'Un Ange' Gets Seduced by Its Own Cinematography

Directed by Koen Mortier

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2018

The first scene of Angel (Un Ange) is Fae (Fatou N'Diaye), a Senegalese sex worker in the motel room from which she works. The camera circl...