Wakaliwood goes worldwide on our last day of TIFF
The Ugandan film studio travels to Canada for the first time – and new films from Cory Finley, Takashi Miike and Joey Klein.
Springsteen does the cowboy-philosopher thing
As TIFF starts to wind down, we weigh in on the new Springsteen concert documentary, a refreshing English teen drama and a complete misfire starring Natalie Portman.
Hustlers is the stripper heist movie the world needs
Jennifer Lopez is spectacular in this true story of Wall Street douchebags getting served.
Three pretty different and pretty strange films at TIFF day 8
A pulp fiction adaptation, a Chinese street vendor/anarchist doc and a rare look at organized crime middle management.
The Goldfinch fails exactly where so many other adaptations have in the past
This prestigious adaptation of the beloved Donna Tartt book is a polished but superficial version of a great story.
The world’s hippest after-school special and more from TIFF day 7
…including a contemporary take on Les Misérables and Dakota Fanning wading into dodgy waters.
Joker is unrelentingly dark, in an adolescent kind of way
PLUS more chaotic scumbag energy from the brilliant Safdie brothers, Pablo Larraín’s follow-up to Jackie and more from TIFF day 6.
Soderbergh, Kore-eda and more on day 5 of TIFF
PLUS new movies from Rian Johnson, Sophie Deraspe and Marielle Heller’s Mister Rogers movie.
Noah Baumbach’s divorce epic and more at day 4 of TIFF
Our Screen team also weighs in on Robert Eggers’ bugnuts follow-up to The Witch, a couple of end-of-life dramas and a disappointing time-travel film.
A queer masterpiece and an all-star dip into blaxploitation history at TIFF day 3
PLUS Roy Andersson’s bizarre oeuvre persists, popes talk shop and a colour-blind approach to David Copperfield.