TIFF 2017 Capsule Reviews
TIFF 2017: ‘Dark River,’ ‘Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,’ ‘Alanis,’ ‘Beast,’ ‘Occidental’
TIFF 2017: ‘Dark River,’ ‘Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc,’ ‘Alanis,’ ‘Beast,’ ‘Occidental’
“Step aside, LBJ, your time in the spotlight is done.”
“As an adaptation of a great 20th century novel, ‘It’ completely misses the mark.”
“I felt challenged to endure something so terrifying, so relentlessly destabilizing. I felt fear.”
“Her power lies in her opaqueness.”
“It is, quite simply, one of the most engaging and most charming movies ever made.”
“It’s not the edge of the knife — it’s the business end of the blade.”
“Altman balances searing interpersonal conflicts with a visual rhythm that’s downright whimsical.”
“Dunst remains in control of her persona, but she’s also at the mercy of Hollywood scheming.”
“With ‘Meadowland,’ Reed Morano doesn’t shy away from pain, and neither should Netflix viewers.”
“This is a love story expressed through gaping structural absences.”
“The vomit moment in ‘Dead Bang’ is unfailingly human.”
“With great color, style and technique, Ford haunts the audience with the disappointments of our absurd world.”
“Lyne does not believe in the ‘New Man.'”
“In ‘Single White Female,’ being fixated with a person’s looks, behavior and personality represents a fetishization of that person as a whole.”
“‘Rampart’ can never step out of the shadows.”
“‘Hounds of Love’ makes an intriguing case for suggestion in place of an all-out, sensationalized show.”
“‘Day of Anger’ is a tightly-structured film about societal influencers and people on the fringe that need somebody in their corner.”
“Marie Antoinette has become queen and left her partying days behind.”
“‘Withnail & I’ is chock-full with digs and insinuations of homoeroticism, some of them crude, others more subtle and rife with dramatic potential and longing.”