tiff 2019

Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Posted 7 years ago

Originally reviewed as part of the Toronto International Film Festival. PLOT: An investigative reporter (Matthew Rhys) is assigned a four hundred word puff piece on beloved children’s TV host Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks). Bent on getting behind his cheery facade,...

Review: Ford V Ferrari

Posted 7 years ago

Previously reviewed at TIFF 2019.  PLOT: The year is 1966 and Ford sales are in the toilet. Company VP Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal) launches a plan to buy Ferrari, only to be double-crossed at the last minute, leading to permanent...

Review: Motherless Brooklyn

Posted 7 years ago

Previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2019 coverage.  PLOT: A private detective (Edward Norton) with Tourette’s Syndrome, working in 1950’s New York, tries to solve his late mentor’s murder and uncovers a vast conspiracy involving a prominent citizen (Alec...

Review: Dolemite is My Name

Posted 7 years ago

Previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2019 coverage.  PLOT: A struggling comedian/musician, Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) becomes an unlikely sensation when he adopts the swaggering, streetwise persona Dolemite in his act. Eager to capitalize on his sudden fame,...

The Lighthouse (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Two nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers (Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe) struggle with isolation and begin to lose a grip on their sanity when their promised replacements fail to show up. REVIEW: A24’s been a good studio for star Robert Pattinson...

Review: The Lighthouse

Posted 7 years ago

Previously reviewed as part of our TIFF 2019 coverage. PLOT: Two nineteenth-century lighthouse keepers (Robert Pattinson & Willem Dafoe) struggle with isolation and begin to lose a grip on their sanity when their promised replacements fail to show up. REVIEW:...

Joker (Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is a lonely, often bullied man living in squalor with this mother (Frances Conroy) in Gotham City. As the city’s gulf between the haves and have nots widens, Fleck’s fragile mindset teeters on the brink...

Review: Lucy in the Sky

Posted 7 years ago

LUCY IN THE SKY was reviewed as part of JoBlo.com's TIFF 2019 coverage.  PLOT: An astronaut (Natalie Portman) returning to earth after a mission has trouble making sense of her earthbound life and falls into a self-destructive relationship with another...

Our 10 Favorite movies from TIFF 2019

Posted 7 years ago

Chris 2019 marked my eleventh year covering TIFF for JoBlo.com. It’s humbling to think how much has changed over the last decade plus, both in the industry and in the festival itself. I remember that some of the movies still...

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