Unfolding like a crime mystery, this documentary takes bizarre turn after bizarre turn as it tells the story of man targeted by the U.S. government.
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TIFF 2020 film review: 'Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds'
Werner Herzog’s latest explores how alien objects have shaped human culture, science and mythology for millions and billions of years.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'Underplayed'
Think fast: name the first 5 female electronic dance music artist that come to mind.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'City Hall'
Save yourself 4 and a half hours and just watch your local city council meeting.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'Concrete Cowboy'
Part coming-of-age drama, part eye-opening look at an intriguing subculture and part urban gentrification critique, this film tries to wear a few too many hats when it should just wear a Stetson.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'Good Joe Bell'
Mark Wahlberg gives a career-best performance as a father struggling with the intense guilt of failing his son in this biographical drama.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'New Order'
This is the one percent's worst nightmare.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'The Kid Detective'
In case you ever wondering what Encyclopedia Brown would look like as a weathered, embittered middle-aged man, it would look something like this dramedy, noir-mystery.
TIFF 2020 film review: '76 Days'
To watch this unprecedented and raw documentary is to relive the COVID-19 pandemic's traumatic, earliest days.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'Beans'
Set against a real-life conflict between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government, this coming-of-age drama is a First Nations story told by First Nations storytellers.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'Monday'
If the conventional formula for romance is a meet-cute that leads to romance and ends with a kiss, this romantic drama flips the tried-and-true formula on its head.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'Pieces of a Woman'
This heartbreaking drama finds a couple reeling from an insurmountable tragedy.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'Inconvenient Indian'
Indigenous history is almost exclusively examined in the total past tense, as if extinct. But this clear-eyed documentary examines what it means to be an Indigenous person living in the modern world.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'Nomadland'
With its sweeping cinematography and understated but fierce free-spirit, this subtle and naturalistic drama is a masterpiece of American cinema anchored in a brilliant lead performance and crafted with elegant and humane direction.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'One Night in Miami'
Regina King's feature directorial debut imagines what might have been said behind closed doors when Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown got together.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'Holler'
With a head-turning lead performance and a grimly authentic backdrop, this naturalistic drama forces an unflinching spotlight on those the surging stock market left behind.
TIFF 2020 film review: 'Shiva Baby'
Imagine the most awkward party you've ever gone to - and this comedy is a thousand times more agonizingly uncomfortable.
‘Mulan’ film review: Darker tone, same inspiring themes
The latest live-action Disney remake takes a noticeably more grounded and somber tone with a re-imagining that feels more like a Chinese ballad brought to life than a rehash of an animated movie.
'Bill and Ted Face the Music' film review: Film's beloved airheads return to save the universe
While far from excellent and not quite bogus, the long-awaited sequel sprinkles some fun moments in an unnecessarily muddled journey through time, space and the afterlife.
'Tesla' film review: A biopic every bit as idiosyncratic as its namesake figure
Much like the titular innovator, this peculiar biopic is all vision and unrealized potential.