tiff film reviews
- Nigeria: pirates kill 2 on cargo ship attack
- Germany: Greek bailout approval not until March
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- Pakistani PM charged with contempt over graft case
- Blast hits Israeli diplomat's car in India; 2 hurt
- Schiphol airport evacuated after bomb threat
- Weekend crashes kill three on N.B. highways
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September 17, 2009
Essentially School Of Rock for girls, Drew Barrymore’s affable directorial debut features a less-mannered-than-usual Ellen Page
TIFF Film review: The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus
September 17, 2009
Directed by Terry Gilliam, this movie is best known as Heath Ledger’s last film.
TIFF Film review: The Young Victoria
September 17, 2009
It’s surely disappointing that Québécois director Jean-Marc Vallée chose to follow up his ecstatic 2005 debut C.R.A.Z.Y. with a Golden Age period piece.
TIFF Film review: My Year Without Sex
September 17, 2009
Life is messy for a woman struggling with domestic life after brain surgery.
TIFF Film review: Partir
September 17, 2009
Partir stars Oscar-nominee Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient) as a bored, aging housewife who leaves her demanding husband for an adulterous affair with a hunky fix-it man.
TIFF Film review: Ong Bak 2: The Beginning
September 17, 2009
Ong Bak 2 is connected to the original action classic by name only.
TIFF Film review: Police, Adjective
September 16, 2009
The directors of Romania’s so-called New Wave have all dealt in some way with the dark legacy of Nicolae Ceausescu.
TIFF Film review: The Damned United
September 16, 2009
You don’t have to be a soccer fan to groove on The Damned United.
TIFF Film review: Mother
September 16, 2009
Korean director Bong Joon-ho (The Host) is peerless when it comes to switching between tones, and Mother registers as another marvellous balancing act.
TIFF Film review: Micmacs
September 16, 2009
Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet returns with a movie that combines his patented whimsy with a satirical treatment of the international arms trade.
TIFF Film review: [REC] 2
September 16, 2009
Taking place roughly 15 minutes after the events of the beloved Spanish zombie movie, [REC] 2 wastes no time getting to punch.
TIFF Film review: J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother)
September 16, 2009
There’s a lot of buzz around J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother), and why not?
TIFF Film review: Leaves Of Grass
September 16, 2009
Tim Blake Nelson’s brainy fish-out-of-water comedy set in redneck Oklahoma stars Edward Norton and Keri Russell.
TIFF Film review: The Ape
September 16, 2009
The TIFF programme note for The Ape says it would be “criminally unfair” to offer anything like a synopsis of its contents.
TIFF Film review: The Invention Of Lying
September 16, 2009
After last year’s sadly unpopular Ghost Town, The Office star Ricky Gervais returns to TIFF with his directorial debut.
TIFF Film review: Cooking With Stella
September 16, 2009
Lisa Ray and Don McKellar are Maya and Michael, a diplomat to the Canadian high commission in New Delhi and her chef husband.
Brown ‘changed me’: Caine
September 15, 2009
In the TIFF film Harry Brown, Michael Caine plays a widowed man who strikes back at the hoodlums who have terrorizing his community.
TIFF Film review: The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee
September 14, 2009
Rebecca Miller wrote and directed this quirky domestic drama based on her own novel
TIFF Film review: Crackie
September 14, 2009
Crackie is a gritty drama about a young girl from a small town who dreams of bettering herself.
TIFF Film review: Reel Injun
September 14, 2009
Weaving together interviews and clips from 100 years of on-screen Native life
TIFF Film review: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
September 14, 2009
German arthouse eccentric Werner Herzog gives Nicolas Cage his best role since Wild at Heart
TIFF Film review: A Serious Man
September 14, 2009
There were a lot of mixed reviews about last year’s Burn After Reading, but there should be no doubt that the Oscar-winning Coen brothers have returned to form with A Serious Man.
TIFF Film review: The Road
September 14, 2009
For fans of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Road, this adaptation will be curious viewing.
TIFF Film review: The Damned United
September 14, 2009
You don’t have to be a soccer fan to groove on The Damned United.
TIFF Film review: George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead
September 14, 2009
Call him what you want, no one can ever accuse maverick filmmaker George A. Romero of being conventional.
TIFF Film review: Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
September 14, 2009
It seems like there’s been a load of documentaries made about Glenn Gould.
TIFF Film review: Leslie, My Name Is Evil
September 14, 2009
Woodstock’s 40th anniversary received a lot of attention this year but another, equally important event from the summer of love hasn’t been as celebrated — until now.
TIFF Film review: The Men Who Stare At Goats
September 11, 2009
George Clooney is disarming as a retired psychic soldier who served secretly in the U.S. military
TIFF Film review: Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire
September 11, 2009
A fact-based account of Job-like misery as experienced by a teenage girl in late ’80s Harlem, Precious is surely harrowing stuff
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