tiff 2015

Review: The Witch (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Expelled from their village, a family of  devoutly Christian settlers encounter supernatural forces in 17th century New England. REVIEW: Not catching THE WITCH at Sundance this year proved to be one of my only true regrets of the festival,...

Review: Beasts of No Nation (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: After his family is slaughtered in the chaos of a West African civil war, a young boy named Agu (Abraham Attah) falls under the sway of a mercenary leader known only as The Commandant (Idris Elba) and becomes a...

Review: Equals (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: In a Utopian future society where emotions are suppressed, two people (Nicholas Hoult and Kristen Stewart) are infected with a disease that causes them to experience emotions such as love for the first time. REVIEW: EQUALS is a highly...

Review: Man Down (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A war veteran (Shia LaBeouf) desperately searches for his wife and son in post-apocalyptic America. REVIEW: I'll say this for director Dito Montiel – he never takes the easy road. From his divisive first film, A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING...

Review: The Program (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: Sports journalist David Walsh (Chris O'Dowd) tries to expose Lance Armstrong's (Ben Foster) doping scheme over the course of his phenomenally successful reign as the world's most popular athlete. REVIEW: About forty minutes into THE PROGRAM, a guy who...

Review: Truth (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: The true story of the events leading to Dan Rather‘s (Robert Redford) contentious CBS exit, revolving around the controversial 60 Minutes II story that exposed the preferential treatment given to George W. Bush during his Vietnam-era military service. REVIEW:...

Review: Eye in the Sky (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A British General (Helen Mirren) must navigate a political and moral minefield while commanding a drone strike on a notorious terrorist who’s planning a suicide bombing. REVIEW: EYE IN THE SKY gets everything right that GOOD KILL got wrong....

Review: Brooklyn (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

  PLOT: In the 1950's, a young Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) leaves her family and home behind to start a new life in the United States. Settling in Brooklyn, the comely young woman finds a new sense of self, especially...

Review: Black Mass (TIFF 2015)

Posted 11 years ago

PLOT: A looks at the brutal reign of Boston mobster Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp), who ruled South Boston while covertly working as an FBI informant, feeding the bureau information on his competitors and shielding his schemes from prosecution. REVIEW: BLACK...

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