tiff 2019

Joker (Movie Review)

Posted 6 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...

Review: The Aeronauts (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: In 1860’s England, gas balloon pilot Amelia Wren (Felicity Jones) is enlisted by scientist James Glaisher (Eddie Redmayne) in an attempt to break the world flight altitude record. REVIEW: THE AERONAUTS is going to be an Amazon Prime exclusive...

Guns Akimbo (TIFF 2019 Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Miles (Daniel Radcliffe), a nerdy videogame designer, gets his kicks trolling the fans of “Skizm”, an illegal death-match club live-streamed online. After antagonizing the wrong troll, he wakes up to find two pistols have been surgically fused to his...

Synchronic (TIFF 2019 Movie Review)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Two New Orleans paramedics (Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan) notice a series of grisly deaths are seemingly related to a new designer drug called Synchronic. REVIEW: Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are a filmmaking duo that have been building...

Review: Just Mercy (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A young Harvard Law grad (Michael B. Jordan) puts his career on the line to set up shop in Alabama, where he dedicates himself to defending death row inmates. He takes on the case of Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx),...

Review: Guns Akimbo (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: Miles (Daniel Radcliffe), a nerdy videogame designer, gets his kicks trolling the fans of “Skizm”, an illegal death-match club live-streamed online. After antagonizing the wrong troll, he wakes up to find two pistols have been surgically fused to his...

Review: The Laundromat (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A woman’s (Meryl Streep) investigation into insurance fraud leads her to a never-ending series of shell companies set up by two Panama City law partners (Gary Oldman & Antonio Banderas). REVIEW: THE LAUNDROMAT is director Steven Soderbergh’s long-awaited Panama...

Review: Color Out of Space (TIFF 2019)

Posted 7 years ago

PLOT: A meteorite tumbles to earth bringing with it both psychological and physical changes to people living in the community it contaminates. REVIEW: Richard Stanley is something of a folk hero in the genre community. Following a smashing breakthrough with...

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