SALTBURN is an uncompelling spectacle
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
Much of the film plays off as “in the moment shock and awe” rather than providing a lasting impression.
JEZABEL brings messy human emotions to nostalgic recollections
By Tori Potenza, Staff Writer
Movies like Jezabel feel like such a gift in a world that has so many big North American blockbusters that barely scratch the surface of human emotion.
THE JESSICA CABIN is a tender queer comedy about life after death
by Joe Carlough, Staff Writer
I could spend all day with the deadpan delivery of Riley Rose Critchlow as the genderqueer spirit Taylor and the frankly hilarious expressions from director/writer Daniel Montgomery’s gay ghost Jackson.
Newly restored THE STRANGLER is a playful, slow burn French giallo
by Clayton Hayes, Staff Writer
If you’re trying to pique my interest in a film, there are few sequences of words that would do better than “early ‘70s unconventional French giallo.”
SHARE? is a stripped down thriller about our social media dystopia
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Director Ira Rosensweig uses a fixed camera for the duration of Share?, an absorbing, intriguing drama that questions our social need to be online all the time.
THE MARVELS shines whenever it escapes the gravity of the larger MCU
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
The Marvels is a movie that loves its characters, flaws and all, and wants to share that love with the audience.
A HOLIDAY I DO offers a morsel of queerness in a familiar packaging
by M. Lopes da Silva, Staff Writer
A Holiday I Do is the tamest of new holiday traditions, not eggnog but a hint of eggnog aromatherapy candle lingering in the living room.
Toronto After Dark: RESTORE POINT, IT'S A WONDERFUL KNIFE, DANIEL'S GOTTA DIE, THE DEEP DARK and more
by Billie Anderson, Staff Writer
Toronto After Dark Film Festival is a horror and science-fiction film festival that promises five nights of local and international content for thousands of horror fans every year.
Toronto After Dark: Shorts Roundup
by Billie Anderson, Staff Writer
This past month, I had the opportunity to cover the Toronto After Dark Film Festival–a horror and science-fiction film festival that promises five nights of local and international content for thousands of horror fans every year.
BLACK NOISE is an underwhelming sci-fi slasher
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
Had the characters worked through their guilt and traumas, Black Noise might have been more compelling.
SUBJECT is a documentary about living in the real world as we watch almost-real depictions of it
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
Subject, the new film from Camilla Hall and Jennifer Tiexiera, asks those questions about the ways documentaries (and, often implicitly, audiences) treat their stars.
Coppola’s PRISCILLA shares little of the person herself
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport and Editor in Chief
Sofia Coppola’s film, Priscilla shares fleeting snippets of a young woman’s past and invites the watcher to draw their own conclusions.
Read MoreALL THE FIRES burns with youthful confusion
by Jo Rempel, Staff Writer
As an ex-teen/ex-boy, any teen boy depicted with a hint of realism is going to freak me out. I just happen to find anything close to my adolescence deeply unpleasant.
THE DELINQUENTS invites the audience to spend time with its characters
by Gary M. Kramer, Staff Writer
The Delinquents is full of lovely little scenes to be appreciated, but after three hours the payoff may not be satisfying. However, for some, the film will continue in one’s head, and that makes it worth watching.
Read MoreSCRAP offers little beyond being an unremarkable indie drama
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
These little indie dramas, composed of by-the-numbers shot/reverse shot sequences, put so much focus on the dialogue that it really has to be great. No one has ever talked like the people in this movie, who talk like what a first time screenwriter thinks people talk like.
BODY COUNT serves up classic vibes in a new short
by Nikk Nelson, Staff Writer, Cinematic Maniac
The music in Body Count stands out—I loved all the songs. The film is composed, shot, and executed adeptly.
HAYRIDE TO HELL needs more hay, needs more hell
by Nikk Nelson, Staff Writer
This hits just above Birdemic for me, as far as overall executions to compare it to. That’s not to say I didn’t/don’t enjoy Birdemic or didn’t enjoy this hayride as well.
Read MoreTHE FIFTH THORACIC VERTEBRA is a nasty fungus feature
by Jo Rempel, Contributor
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra is tense—seeing two people occupy a bedroom gives a new twist on Hitchcock’s adage about telling the audience a bomb’s about to go off—but its emotional arc is closer to ensemble films like Magnolia, or Cloud Atlas.
Read MoreANONYMOUS SISTER Empathetically Charts The Opioid Crisis On A Personal Level
by Alex Rudolph, Staff Writer
To say this is a hard watch is to understate the emotional wreck you become watching a family discuss the ways they think they failed each other.
Read MoreTOTALLY KILLER thrives with comedy, stumbles with thrills
by Megan Robinson, Staff Writer
Though its suspense can fall flat and its meta commentary is just as much a genre trope at this point as the silent, masked murderer, Totally Killer keeps the audience engaged with fun characters fighting against their futures.