By Anne Brodie Lina Rodriguez' meditative, determinedly slow-paced TIFF entry, the immigration story So Much Tenderness follows a Colombian environmental lawyer Aurora (Noëlle Schönwald) under death threats who flees to Canada. She witnessed the murder of her husband, also an activist, and …
A Stunning Canadian Entry, Arquette Antics, Arnold, and Discovering a Sister Far Far Away.
By Anne Brodie Writer-director Marie Clements' devastating Bones of Crows follows a Cree woman from childhood through her life and one hundred years of violent, hateful abuse of indigenous people in Canada. Set against historic government decisions that resulted in discrimination as policy in …
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By Anne Brodie Sebastián Lelio's religious thriller The Wonder, based on the novel by Emma Donoghue, stars Florence Pugh in her best performance to date, and that's saying a lot. Pugh is Lib an English nurse who flees starvation in London to rural, Roman Catholic Ireland where she will "watch" …
The Spell of Exotica, or, a Good Djinn is Hard to Find, Workplace Blues, Godard, Momoa and Hitch!
By Anne Brodie Three Thousand Years of Longing, an ambitious fable based on Persian myths stars Tilda Swinton as Alithea, a prim, self-sufficient, and intellectual seeker, a narratologist who studies "all the stories in human history". She heads to Istanbul to speak at a story conference when a …
Jandy Nelson’s Beloved YA Bestseller The Sky is Everywhere is Now a Movie. Meet the Cast and Director.
Pico Alexander and Grace Kaufman in The Sky is Everywhere - Apple TV+ The original Apple TV+ film The Sky is Everywhere tell's Lennie's story. She lives in a beautiful part of Northern California with her grandmother and uncle when her sister and best friend Bailey dies suddenly, leaving her …