TIFF 2016
‘Loving’ marks a comeback for movies with a conscience
After falling out of style, movies with a conscience are back, and directors are looking for ways to avoid another backlash
Why ‘Moonlight’ is fully deserving of its high-voltage buzz
Moonlight is a meditative, colourful and entirely timely film
Philip Roth and why good books make bad movies
The latest attempt to translate Philip Roth shows the challenge with adapting literature to film
The Skyjacker’s Tale and its plane-hijacking antihero
Accused of a massacre, Ishmael Muslim Ali allegedly hijacked a plane to flee—but says he didn’t commit the crime
How the Western has waned
Westerns once ruled the movie theatre. But a remake of ‘The Magnificent Seven’ shows just how far the genre has fallen.
Blair Witch follows the original’s creepy footsteps back into the woods
Can the new ‘Blair Witch’ possibly live up to the sheer terror of the pioneering ‘Blair Witch Project’?
Nate Parker, rape allegations and The Birth of a Nation
A director who demands the redress of historical wrongs is forced to face his own past
16 to see at TIFF ’16: Brian D. Johnson’s picks
A sweet 16 of must-see movies, plus a handful more our reviewer can’t wait to see