reviews

Hinds' 'Viva Hinds' Is a Playful Reset

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024

Summer wouldn't be the same without a little romance, and that's exactly what pulses through Hinds' lighthearted new record — Carlotta Cosia...

'The Mother and the Bear' Warms a Winnipeg Winter

Directed by Johnny Ma

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024

On a cold Winnipeg evening, a rustling behind a dumpster in an alleyway startles a young woman, Sumi (Leere Park), who slips and falls on...

'Young Werther' Puts a Fresh Toronto Twist on a Classic

Directed by José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço

PUBLISHED Sep 10, 2024

Based on the 1774 novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'Young Werther' follows the time-honoured tradition of...

'Riff Raff' Is a TIFF Laff

Directed by Dito Montiel

PUBLISHED Sep 9, 2024

'Riff Raff' is a masterwork of typecasting: there's Jennifer Coolidge as a sloppy drunk, Ed Harris as a gruff patriarch who balances caring...

'Nightbitch' Has Both Bark and Bite

Directed by Marielle Heller

PUBLISHED Sep 8, 2024

Of all the human experiences, motherhood is a particularly visceral. There's childbirth, of course, but then there are the the struggles...

'Shook' Tells a Different Sort of Scarborough Story

Directed by Amar Wala

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

Movies set in Scarborough tend to show the beauty of the area through its grit and the trauma that follows. While there's certainly a need...

'The Life of Chuck' Is a Self-Serious Bore

Directed by Mike Flanagan

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with saccharine sentimentality and ponderous monologues about the meaning of life. The...

Anderson .Paak's Star Power Makes 'K-Pops' Pop

Directed by Anderson .Paak

PUBLISHED Sep 7, 2024

Anderson .Paak is hardly the first musician to sidestep from music to movies, but his filmography to date is extremely thin, mostly...