TIFF

Review: Dolemite is My Name

Posted 6 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 6 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 6 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 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...

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