SHOPLIFTERS (Koreeda): Most reminiscent of NOBODY KNOWS, and one of his better efforts. So rare to see stories of poverty like this, let alone so thoughtfully sketched. Bit of a stretch for the Palme, though, no? #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:59 PM
SHOPLIFTERS (Koreeda): Most reminiscent of NOBODY KNOWS, and one of his better efforts. So rare to see stories of poverty like this, let alone so thoughtfully sketched. Bit of a stretch for the Palme, though, no? #TIFF18
DOGMAN (Garrone): A welcome return to GOMORRAH territory, with a striking milieu and a great lead performance. A feeling of inevitability weakens the final stetch, but mostly persuasive. So many good 🐶. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:49 PM
DOGMAN (Garrone): A welcome return to GOMORRAH territory, with a striking milieu and a great lead performance. A feeling of inevitability weakens the final stetch, but mostly persuasive. So many good 🐶. #TIFF18
BURNING (Lee): Completely unexpected, completely brilliant. Did not think that beguiling, undefinable Murakami feeling could translate to the screen and yet it has. Best of my Cannes Catch-up quartet by far. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:39 PM
BURNING (Lee): Completely unexpected, completely brilliant. Did not think that beguiling, undefinable Murakami feeling could translate to the screen and yet it has. Best of my Cannes Catch-up quartet by far. #TIFF18
First #TIFF18 for @Variety: Patricia Rozema’s MOUTHPIECE, a two-hander in which the two hands belong to the same person: https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/mouthpiece-review-1202929184/
Toronto Film Review: ‘Mouthpiece’
A young woman's inner struggle to write a eulogy for her ...
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November 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
First #TIFF18 for @Variety: Patricia Rozema’s MOUTHPIECE, a two-hander in which the two hands belong to the same person: https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/mouthpiece-review-1202929184/
THE WILD PEAR TREE (Ceylan): An American indie about a college grad who returns to his bog of a hometown would be 90 minutes and feature Shins songs. Ceylan’s is twice as long and many times deeper, with a wrenching father-son bond at its core. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
THE WILD PEAR TREE (Ceylan): An American indie about a college grad who returns to his bog of a hometown would be 90 minutes and feature Shins songs. Ceylan’s is twice as long and many times deeper, with a wrenching father-son bond at its core. #TIFF18
THE FRONT RUNNER (Reitman): Low energy! Arrives at a nuanced take on the relevance of Gary Hart’s personal dalliances to his moral and political fitness, but it’s Sleepy Eyes Robert Altman for most of the way. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
THE FRONT RUNNER (Reitman): Low energy! Arrives at a nuanced take on the relevance of Gary Hart’s personal dalliances to his moral and political fitness, but it’s Sleepy Eyes Robert Altman for most of the way. #TIFF18
THE PREDATOR (Black): All I want is for Shane Black to build up enough studio capital to splurge on snotty L.A. noir. If this hectic, noisy time-passer gets him closer to another one, fine. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
THE PREDATOR (Black): All I want is for Shane Black to build up enough studio capital to splurge on snotty L.A. noir. If this hectic, noisy time-passer gets him closer to another one, fine. #TIFF18
VOX LUX (Corbet): Extremely striking, odd, confident anti-musical, very much in the tradition of the Borderline Films collective. A story of pop music borne of violence and disassociation. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:17 PM
VOX LUX (Corbet): Extremely striking, odd, confident anti-musical, very much in the tradition of the Borderline Films collective. A story of pop music borne of violence and disassociation. #TIFF18
Here for the World Premiere of the new Alex Ross Perry, nostrils flaring in anticipation. GOLDEN EXITS felt like a transitional film. We’ll see what he’s transitioning into. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Here for the World Premiere of the new Alex Ross Perry, nostrils flaring in anticipation. GOLDEN EXITS felt like a transitional film. We’ll see what he’s transitioning into. #TIFF18
FREE SOLO (Vasarhelyi/Chin): A nerve-shredding experience to be sure, but plenty to engage the mind, too, from the technical particulars of the climb to the isolating mentality necessary to attempt it. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM
FREE SOLO (Vasarhelyi/Chin): A nerve-shredding experience to be sure, but plenty to engage the mind, too, from the technical particulars of the climb to the isolating mentality necessary to attempt it. #TIFF18
MID90s (Hill): Larry Clark by way of CLERKS by way of early Scorsese by way of a movie star turned director with access to expensive music. Funny in spots but MINDING THE GAP this is not. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM
MID90s (Hill): Larry Clark by way of CLERKS by way of early Scorsese by way of a movie star turned director with access to expensive music. Funny in spots but MINDING THE GAP this is not. #TIFF18
HER SMELL (Perry): The discord of Perry's work is made literal in this girl-punk epic about a Courtney Love type on the downslope of addiction and excess. Grindingly long and unpersuasive, though the journey (and Moss' performance) eventually wore down my defenses. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 3:05 PM
HER SMELL (Perry): The discord of Perry's work is made literal in this girl-punk epic about a Courtney Love type on the downslope of addiction and excess. Grindingly long and unpersuasive, though the journey (and Moss' performance) eventually wore down my defenses. #TIFF18
MAYA (Hansen-Løve): Another ode to the restorative qualities of India, this time in service of a French war reporter who spent time as a hostage in Syria. Listless, flavorless, stilted, the first of hers I’ve disliked. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 2:52 PM
MAYA (Hansen-Løve): Another ode to the restorative qualities of India, this time in service of a French war reporter who spent time as a hostage in Syria. Listless, flavorless, stilted, the first of hers I’ve disliked. #TIFF18
CLIMAX (Noe): Young dancers have an acid freakout without Bruce Dern to guide them through it. Not advisable. One spectacular dance sequence, but once the LSD drops, the chaos slides into tedium. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 2:52 PM
CLIMAX (Noe): Young dancers have an acid freakout without Bruce Dern to guide them through it. Not advisable. One spectacular dance sequence, but once the LSD drops, the chaos slides into tedium. #TIFF18
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Jenkins): Case study in how racism can derail even the most modest of dreams. Jenkins’ approach to the past again mirrors Wong Kar-wai: Moments out of time rendered as vividly as a dream. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 2:52 PM
IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK (Jenkins): Case study in how racism can derail even the most modest of dreams. Jenkins’ approach to the past again mirrors Wong Kar-wai: Moments out of time rendered as vividly as a dream. #TIFF18
HIGH LIFE (Denis): Closest to TROUBLE EVERY DAY as an explicit genre play on the down-and-dirty basics of life, death and bodily fluids, though significantly more inscrutable. Don't ask me to break it down, but I sure loved watching it. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 2:52 PM
HIGH LIFE (Denis): Closest to TROUBLE EVERY DAY as an explicit genre play on the down-and-dirty basics of life, death and bodily fluids, though significantly more inscrutable. Don't ask me to break it down, but I sure loved watching it. #TIFF18
We could get a nice pick-up game going at #TIFF18 between Team Bannon Owned Morris and Team Bannon Hung By The Rope Morris Gave Him. I’ll choose my team tomorrow.
November 20, 2024 at 2:40 PM
We could get a nice pick-up game going at #TIFF18 between Team Bannon Owned Morris and Team Bannon Hung By The Rope Morris Gave Him. I’ll choose my team tomorrow.
SUNSET (Nemes): Festival fatigue had me watching some of this through a haze, but Nemes’ rigorous visual strategy—close-ups + extremely shallow depth of field—turns the forces of history into a stalking menace. Great ending. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 2:40 PM
SUNSET (Nemes): Festival fatigue had me watching some of this through a haze, but Nemes’ rigorous visual strategy—close-ups + extremely shallow depth of field—turns the forces of history into a stalking menace. Great ending. #TIFF18
AMERICAN DHARMA (Morris): One of those horror movies where you want to yell at the screen, only instead of yelling, "Don't run up the stairs!," you're yelling, "Ask him about the massive tax cut to the rich that was the '... and scene' to Bannon's faux-populist grift." #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 2:40 PM
AMERICAN DHARMA (Morris): One of those horror movies where you want to yell at the screen, only instead of yelling, "Don't run up the stairs!," you're yelling, "Ask him about the massive tax cut to the rich that was the '... and scene' to Bannon's faux-populist grift." #TIFF18
NON-FICTION (Assayas): A delight. Great conversation, lots of laughs, a choice running bit on Michael Haneke. So plugged-in to trends in publishing and discourse that it's both satisfying of the moment and one for the time capsule. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 2:40 PM
NON-FICTION (Assayas): A delight. Great conversation, lots of laughs, a choice running bit on Michael Haneke. So plugged-in to trends in publishing and discourse that it's both satisfying of the moment and one for the time capsule. #TIFF18
TRANSIT (Petzold): Still sorting through the conceptual mishmosh of a WWII drama pushed into modern-day Marseilles, but Petzold's particular movie magic, evocative of THE THIRD MAN, CASABLANCA, Graham Greene, et al., works on me every time. Lovely festival ender for me. #TIFF18
November 20, 2024 at 2:40 PM
TRANSIT (Petzold): Still sorting through the conceptual mishmosh of a WWII drama pushed into modern-day Marseilles, but Petzold's particular movie magic, evocative of THE THIRD MAN, CASABLANCA, Graham Greene, et al., works on me every time. Lovely festival ender for me. #TIFF18
Stick a fork in #TIFF18 for me. Shoutouts to my longtime roommates and partners-in-gripe, @NoelMu and @gemko, and to first-timers @jessicakiang, @michelledeidre and @melvillmatic, who are delightful and brilliant people. Make new friends and keep the old...
November 20, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Stick a fork in #TIFF18 for me. Shoutouts to my longtime roommates and partners-in-gripe, @NoelMu and @gemko, and to first-timers @jessicakiang, @michelledeidre and @melvillmatic, who are delightful and brilliant people. Make new friends and keep the old...