Written by Taylor Baker 10/100 Theodore Melfi's long awaited feature film follow up to 2016's Hidden Figures is a an schlocky melodrama with paper thin characters and paper thin ideas. Melfi reteams with Melissa McCarthy who plays Lilly Maynard. A … Continue reading.
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Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: Jagged
Written by Maria Athayde *No Rating/100 How do you review or critique a documentary that has been publicly disavowed by its main subject? This was my biggest challenge when it comes to this review. As soon as I finished watching … Continue reading.
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: Ahed’s Knee
Written by Alexander Reams 86/100 A film that oftentimes wants to forget its heritage. Nadav Lapid’s sophomore effort Ahed’s Knee (also one of the stranger titles of a film in 2021), is possibly the most 2021 a 2021 film can … Continue reading.
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: Montana Story
Written by Patrick Hao 63/100 In just a short time, Haley Lu Richardson has become one of the most dynamic actresses in American cinema. She has an ability to adapt into whatever locale she is placed in, whether it is … Continue reading.
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: The Story of My Wife
Written by Alexander Reams 32/100 Love is a strange concept, those who watch Rick & Morty will know it as a chemical reaction in the mind, and there are others who disregard that definition and go for “you know it … Continue reading.
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over
Written by Maria Athayde 65/100 Dionne Warwick: Don't Make Me Over co-directed by Dave Wooley, making his feature directorial debut, and David Heilbroner immortalizes a legend, humanitarian, and artist we all know as Dionne Warwick. While there is nothing particularly … Continue reading.
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: The Eyes of Tammy Faye
Written by Patrick Hao 45/100 In past thirty years, the famous televangelist, Tammy Faye Bakker, has gone through a rehabilitation of her image, especially in the gay community. A lot of that has to do with her openly talking and … Continue reading.
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: Jockey
Written by Anna Harrison 70/100 Every time you get on a horse, you roll the dice. If it’s a good day, then you listen to each other, you forgive mistakes, you work in tandem; if it’s a bad day, well, … Continue reading.
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: Neptune Frost
Written by Patrick Hao 60/100 Science fiction narratives have always been more a reflection of the present than about the future. Multi-media musician Saul Williams and Rwandan director Anisia Uzeyman use the genre in their collaboration, Neptune Frost, to make … Continue reading.
Toronto International Film Festival 2021 Review: Comala
Written by Taylor Baker 35/100 Comala starts with a denial. The documentarian is interviewing his mother, and she says "no" over a dozen times in reference to whether or not her husband was a hitman. We can't tell if she's … Continue reading.