2021 | AFTER MISERY 4/9

S.J.

Sep 22, 2021

TIFF 2021: 'The Daughter, 'Benediction' | Tense Thriller, Terence Davies' Drama | Capsule Reviews

Possibly earning the crowning achievement of being the most under-the-radar film at this year's Toronto International Film Festival is a pro

S.J.

Sep 20, 2021

TIFF 2021: 'Drive My Car', 'The Guilty' | Hamaguchi Ryūsuke, Jake Gyllenhaal | Capsule Reviews

You will not drift in my Tokyo, you will simply just Drive My Car (ドライブ・マイ・カー in Japanese). Or you won't actually because the main character

S.J.

Sep 17, 2021

'Dune' Review: Denis Villeneuve's Epic Sci-Fi Adaptation Gets Spicy With Timothée Chalamet

Also adapted by director Denis Villeneuve alongside co-writers Jon Spaiths and Eric Roth from Frank Herbert's novel of the same name, Dune s

S.J.

Sep 16, 2021

TIFF 2021: 'Encounter', 'The Mad Women's Ball' | Riz Ahmed, Mélanie Laurent | Capsule Reviews

This happens in director-writer Michael Pierce's Encounter, co-written with Joe Barton, which is a sort of sci-fi-action-thriller-drama mash

S.J.

Sep 14, 2021

TIFF 2021: 'The Gravedigger's Wife', 'Murina' | Family Drama, Coming-Of-Age | Capsule Reviews

Taking the viewer to somewhere that movies don't usually go, The Gravedigger's Wife (Guled & Nasra in Finland, Somali title currently unknow

S.J.

Sep 12, 2021

TIFF 2021: 'Aloners', 'As In Heaven' | Gong Seung-Yeon, Religious Drama | Capsule Reviews

Finding confined spaces in Korea is Aloners (혼자 사는 사람들 in Korean), a confident first film from director-writer-editor Hong Sung-eun, which j

S.J.

Sep 2, 2021

'Luca' Review: Sea Creature Boy Makes New Friends & Memories On Dry Land

Coming-of-age tale Luca hails from the previously mentioned country that brought you 'Suspiria', opera and gelato, with direction from Enric

S.J.

Aug 19, 2021

'The Father' Review: Anthony Hopkins Is Lost In His Own Home In Florian Zeller's Dense Drama

With The Father, we have first-time director Florian Zeller adapting his acclaimed play of the same name to the big screen, screenplay provi

S.J.

Aug 16, 2021

'The Forever Purge' Review: Crime Is Legal Again, For A Little While

If you have blinked at least once in the last 30 seconds, you might have missed one or two new installments of an established horror franchi

S.J.

Aug 12, 2021

'Beckett' Review: John David Washington's Trip To Greece Takes A Turn

I've never been to Greece but it sure can look lovely there based on the visual splendour of Beckett, a low-key action thriller that's...