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‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ Review: When Radical Change Requires Radical Action
A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.
‘Saint Omer’ Review: An Emotional and Evocative Legal Drama That Transcends the Courtroom
Rama is a novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter. Testimonies from witnesses and Coly's own words soon shake Rama's convictions.
Beyond Fest 2022: ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review – Rich Sickness on the Starboard Side
Winner of the Palme d'Or, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean) are...
‘Crimes of the Future’ Review: Cronenberg’s Organ Art Under The Knife
As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. Accompanied by his partner, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser showcases the metamor...
‘The Worst Person in the World’ Review: Life As We Slow It
A young woman battles indecisiveness as she traverses the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path.
‘Memoria’ Review: An Enigmatic, Dreamlike Journey
Tilda Swinton stars in Memoria is a strange and beautiful artistic rendering of sound, memory, and the connection between past and present.
‘Spencer’ Review: Fall of The Innocents
December, 1991. The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen...
TIFF 2021 Review: “Spencer” is a Moody, Royal Tragedy
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
‘Titane’ Review: Ladies, Start Your Engines!
Staci Layne Wilson reviews Titane, an audacious but unengaging French body-horror film about a woman who loves cars a little too much.