Reel Reviews | Saloum (TIFF ’21)
Andrew Crump | The Playlist Guns, gold bars, drug lords, military coups, folk heroes, tall tales, and ghost stories. Is there a 2021 film that gives [read more]
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Reel Reviews | Silent Night (TIFF ’21)
by Alonso Duralde | The Wrap In “Silent Night,” first-time writer-director Camille Griffin wickedly weaves together holiday-movie and end-of-the-world–movie tropes, but once the shock of that juxtaposition [read more]
Reel Reviews | Medusa
In Anita Rocha da Silveira’s haunting Medusa, purity and violence collide in a surreal evangelical town where masked young women hunt “sinners” in God’s name — until one follower starts to see the monstrous truth behind the masks.
Reel Reviews | Copshop
by Charles Kirkland Jr. A hitman goes to the extreme to take out his mark in the crime-action thriller, Copshop.
Reel Reviews | Snakehead (TIFF ’21)
by Kristen Lopez | IndieWire “Chinatown doesn’t change for anybody,” says Jade Wu’s Dai Mah late in Evan Jackson Leong’s “Snakehead,” the kind of line [read more]
Reel Reviews | The Good House (TIFF ’21)
by David Ehrlich | IndieWire “I never drank alone before rehab,” cracks Hildy Good (Sigourney Weaver), a divorced, 60-year-old real estate agent whose façade of [read more]
Reel Reviews | The Middle Man (TIFF ’21)
by Jared Mobarak | The Film Stage Frank Farelli (Pål Sverre Hagen) has been unemployed in a dying town for quite some time.
Reel Reviews | Vuta N’Kuvute (Tug of War) (TIFF ’21)
by Christopher Vourlias | Variety For the first time in its 46-year history, a Tanzanian film is part of the official selection of the Toronto Film [read more]