TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘La Gradiva’

TIFF 2026 ‐ ‐ September 18, 2026
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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘La Gradiva’

Co-writer and director Marine Atlan gives viewers La Gradiva and is showing us a nightmare scenario – Gen-Z teens! In particular, two French teachers take their students to Pompeii to study Latin science and art with independence. At times, they go where they’re not supposed to, but during ‘work’, they go to volcanoes and museums. […]

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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Neverman’

TIFF 2026 ‐ ‐ September 18, 2026
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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Neverman’

Alzheimer’s strips away who we are. It clouds the past, and leaves people in daze. For Lucia (Justin Vivian Bond), there could be nothing worse. She has spent her life fighting for gay and trans rights, but as she’s grown tired of fighting. She wants nothing more than to retire to a place where people […]

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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘In Waves’

Festival Coverage, Movies, TIFF 2026 ‐ ‐ September 18, 2026
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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘In Waves’

When many people think of graphic novels, they picture superheroes saving the day. Although they can be from any genre, that’s all some people think of.  A lot of people have a similar bias towards animation, thinking animated films are only for children. In Waves is neither of those things. It’s an autobiographical story of […]

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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Evil Genius’

Festival Coverage, Movies, TIFF 2026 ‐ ‐ September 17, 2026
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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Evil Genius’

In 2003 one of the oddest attempted bank robberies took place. A pizza delivery man went into a local bank in Pennsylvania with a bomb locked around his neck demanding cash. Evil Genius tells the criminals’ familiar story. Telling a story that is so well known and so recent can be difficult to pull off. […]

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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Double Freedom’

TIFF 2026 ‐ ‐ September 17, 2026
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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Double Freedom’

Misael (Misael Saavedra) takes a break from cutting trees, sees his dog, a pitbull, pass by, pets him. That’s enough cutting trees for that day, building a fence for either himself, his neighbour, or both. Now that he finishes a day’s work, he washes his face, eats his food, and listens to his little radio. […]

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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Our Loves’

Festival Coverage, Movies, TIFF 2026 ‐ ‐ September 17, 2026
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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Our Loves’

On October 7, 2023, a holiday Saturday, citizens of Israel were just waking up when at 6:30 AM missiles started to rain down. It was on this day that Hamas invaded the country, taking over 250 people hostage and killing over a thousand more. It was the country’s deadliest day since Israel’s independence in 1948. […]

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TIFF 2026: Our Review is ‘Love is the Monster’

Festival Coverage, Movies, TIFF 2026 ‐ ‐ September 17, 2026
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TIFF 2026: Our Review is ‘Love is the Monster’

None of the characters in Love is a Monster, from director and writer Neto Villalobos, have proper names. Viewers only know of them through their relationships with each other, like its protagonist Grandmother (Paulina Garcia). Grandmother is washing her hair at a working class salon, one of the few luxuries in post apocalyptic Costa Rica. […]

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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Eklipse’

TIFF 2026 ‐ ‐ September 17, 2026
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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Eklipse’

Tomy (Moritz Hohlrieder) and Chris (Finley Brown) are Tyrolean boys, roughhousing during a broadcast of a coming solar eclipse. Eklipse, from director Manuel Wetscher, then shows the kind of people who were around children during the late 1990s / early 2000s. Some of the people around them are cool, like people slightly older than them. […]

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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Bucking Fastard’

Festival Coverage, Movies, TIFF 2026 ‐ ‐ September 17, 2026
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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘Bucking Fastard’

If you are looking for a conventional film that tells a complete story, Bucking Fastard is not it. In fact, the film feels more like three incomplete stories that jump forward without rhyme or reason. Of course we are talking about a Werner Herzog film, and one he dedicated to his esteemed colleague David Lynch. […]

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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘The Black Box is Orange’

TIFF 2026 ‐ ‐ September 16, 2026
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TIFF 2026: Our Review of ‘The Black Box is Orange’

“Everywhere who grew up there has fond memories of the entire region,” says a man, one of the faceless interviewees in The Black Box is Orange. He and his interviewer, director Yuula Benivolski, both grew up in a town that Palestinians called al-Bassa. Palestinians, of course, no longer live in that large town of al-Bassa. […]

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