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One of our very best actors, Brian Cox, makes a somewhat belated directorial debut with the Toronto world premiere Glenrothan, in which he also stars. Set in his…
Read more ‘Glenrothan’ Review: Brian Cox’s Scotland-Set Directorial Debut Combats Sibling-Drama Clichés With Good ActingIf there was any lingering doubt regarding Bob Odenkirk‘s late-career reinvention as a legit everyman action star, Normal handily seals the deal. Having proved himself up to the…
Read more ‘Normal’ Review: Bob Odenkirk Fires on All Cylinders in Ben Wheatley’s Jaw-Droppingly Excessive Blast of a Crime CaperIn introducing his new comedy just ahead of its TIFF world premiere, director Bobby Farrelly noted that Dumb and Dumber, the 1994 release that introduced him and brother…
Read more ‘Driver’s Ed’ Review: Sam Nivola Stars in Bobby Farrelly’s Genial but Uninspired Road Trip ComedyTaking the notion of skeletons in the family closet quite literally, Alex Winter‘s Adulthood sets out to expose something sinister lurking just beneath suburbia’s fake wood-paneled veneer of…
Read more ‘Adulthood’ Review: Alex Winter’s Dark Family Satire Is Not Exactly an Excellent AdventureBack in the early 2000s, a pair of blue-eyed Scottish lads with dreams of becoming the next Eminem — but dismissed as sounding like “the rapping Proclaimers” —…
Read more ‘California Schemin” Review: James McAvoy’s Assured Directorial Debut Makes for an Engaging if Familiar Underdog StoryHigh school can really get under your skin, as Emile Hirsch is discovering in this exclusive first look image from the horror-comedy Lice. Hirsch stars in the film, which…
Read more See Emile Hirsch in Horror-Comedy ‘Lice’ (Exclusive First Look)The Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable…
Read more Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas Talk Beatles, Abba and Brotherhood in Anders Thomas Jensen’s ‘The Last Viking’Maude Apatow’s directorial debut Poetic License is an intergenerational coming-of-age film about an aimless middle-aged wife and mother who comes into the lives of two college students with…
Read more ‘Poetic License’ Review: Maude Apatow’s Directorial Debut Is a Bighearted but Frustratingly Aimless Campus ComedyThe season of Skarsgards continues with Dead Man’s Wire, a Gus Van Sant-directed dramedy based on a dark true story from 1977, which showcases a terrific performance by…
Read more Toronto Awards Analysis: Bill Skarsgard Could Be a Contender for Gus Van Sant’s Sales Title ‘Dead Man’s Wire’The opening credits of the heist thriller Fuze flicker and shake like action-movie credits used to do back in the good old Tony Scott days. That’s an early…
Read more ‘Fuze’ Review: Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James Headline David Mackenzie’s Savvy, Hunk-Filled Heist ThrillerJohn Candy is having a bit of a moment. While it has been more than three decades since the beloved Canadian comic actor died tragically too soon, at…
Read more ‘John Candy: I Like Me’ Review: Colin Hanks’ Doc Portrait Pays Poignant Tribute to a Comic Icon’s Life and Legacy