Articles by Sarah Melton

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  TIFF Review: 'Giant Little Ones' Packs Huge Issues Into a Little Story

  Directed by Keith Behrman

  PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2018

  When Franky (Josh Wiggins) hooks up with his best friend at his 17th birthday party, new pressures are introduced into his life. Beyond cha...

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  TIFF Review: 'Cold War' Is Pawel Pawlikowski's Deeply Personal 'Ida' Followup

  Directed by Pawel Pawlikowski

  PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2018

  Pawel Pawlikowski's first film after Ida won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Cold War is a visually stunning love story loosely b...

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  TIFF Review: 'The Grizzlies' Tells A Tale Too Familiar

  Directed by Miranda de Pencier

  PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2018

  While Canada is lacking in films that centre Indigenous communities, The Grizzlies is a story you've seen before. Russ, a young white man,...

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  Jennifer Garner's 'Peppermint' Will Leave a Bad Taste in Your Mouth

  Directed by Pierre Morel

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2018

  Directed by Pierre Morel, Peppermint is about Riley (Jennifer Garner) a white woman vigilante out to get revenge on the Latino drug cartel...

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  TIFF Review: 'Anthropocene: The Human Epoch' Is a Kaleidoscopic Look at Dystopian Self-Destruction

  Directed by Jennifer Baichwal

  PUBLISHED Sep 6, 2018

  Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, a look at humankind's intense altering of the Earth, is Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier's third co...

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  'The Happytime Murders' Offers Viewers a Very Unhappy Time

  Directed by Brian Henson

  PUBLISHED Aug 23, 2018

  Have you ever wondered what the vaginas, pee or cum of puppets looks like? Probably not. But in The Happytime Murders, you'll find out. In...

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  'Papillon' Review: A Brutal Tale Is Played a Little Too Safe

  Directed by Michael Noer

  PUBLISHED Aug 22, 2018

  When Henri "Papillon" Charrière (Charlie Hunnam) is sent to a penal colony in French Guiana, the main thing on his mind is getting out of t...

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  'Dog Days' Review: Goofy Charm Lacks Payoff

  Directed by Ken Marino

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2018

  For a lighthearted summer comedy that piles in as many cute dogs, kids and clichés as it can, Ken Marino's Dog Days has some goofy charm....