Review: Battle of the Sexes (TIFF)

PLOT: The true story of Tennis champ Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) who, in 1973, accepted a challenge by Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) to play an exhibition game that he marketed as an epic battle of the sexes. REVIEW: Despite...

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Review: Molly’s Game (TIFF)

PLOT: A young woman (Jessica Chastain) working for a Hollywood mogul, spins a private poker game for high-stakes players into a multi-million dollar business, putting her in the cross-hairs of the authorities and the mob. REVIEW: MOLLY’S GAME tells the...

Review: The Shape of Water (TIFF)

PLOT: A mute cleaning woman (Sally Hawkins) working the graveyard shift at a top secret government installation in the cold war era, befriends an imprisoned sea creature (Doug Jones) being experimented upon by an overzealous agent (Michael Shannon) and a...

Review: Mom and Dad (TIFF)

PLOT: An inexplicable phenomena results in parents being uncontrollably compelled to murder their children. REVIEW: MOM AND DAD marks the solo directorial debut of Brian Taylor, one half of the famous Neveldine/Taylor directorial duo, which brought us such crazed classics...

mother! (TIFF Review)

PLOT: A young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) restoring her older husband’s (Javier Bardem) decaying home, finds their idyll interrupted by two abrasive house guests (Ed Harris & Michelle Pfeiffer). REVIEW: As far as big studio movies go this year, few are...

Review: The Death of Stalin (TIFF)

PLOT: The death of Joseph Stalin creates a power struggle in the Kremlin, with Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor), Nikita Khruschev (Steve Buscemi) and NKVD head Beria (Simon Russell Beale) among those trying to fill the vacuum. REVIEW: After several years occupying...

Review: Papillon (TIFF)

PLOT: The true story of Henri Charriere (Charlie Hunnam) and his life as an inmate on Devil’s Island, where he meets fellow prisoner Louis Dega (Rami Malek) and plans an escape. REVIEW: PAPILLON is a remake of Franklin J. Schaffner’s...

Review: Suburbicon (TIFF)

PLOT: The seamy underbelly of a 1950’s suburban community is unearthed when a home invasion has deadly consequences for a local dad (Matt Damon), his sister-in-law (Julianne Moore) and son. REVIEW: I’ll give SUBRBICON this – it made for a...

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (TIFF Review)

PLOT: A cardiac surgeon (Colin Farrell) sparks up a friendship with the teen-aged son (Barry Keoghan) of a former patient who died under his watch. Soon, the boy begins ingratiating himself into the doctor’s home life, only to make a...
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