Tiff 2017: DISOBEDIENCE Review
Mynt reviews Sebastian Lelio's DISOBEDIENCE starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams.
Mynt reviews Sebastian Lelio's DISOBEDIENCE starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams.
I honestly don’t know if he could have made a film that was more Sorkineque without fleecing the cast of his old shows and having a cameo from Mark Zuckerberg and the Winkelvii.
It’s often too much to handle, but sometimes that’s just what you need.
Irish Director Aoife McArdle's debut feature film, Kissing Candice, features a bored girl living in Ireland who is dreaming of a more exciting life with an exciting man away from her awful town.
Michael Pearce’s debut feature, Beast, suffers from an awkward problem. The overall goal of the film is to create a dark, adult fairy tale about a woman suffering from a domineering family, obvious mental health issues, and a naiveté about the world
Lynn Shelton gives us the natural outpouring of a moment in time through the emotions and conversations of fully realized characters.
The Evil In Us is a drab and annoying cabin-in-the-woods horror movie where, surprise, the monster was inside of us all along.
WHOSE STREETS? shows the organized and thoughtful resistance to a media narrative that wanted to dismiss the concerns of an oppressed population.
THE TRIP TO SPAIN doesn’t live up to the heart found in the other two.
On the film side of contemporary media about racism, Detroit doesn't stack up against any of its competitors.
GIRLS TRIP manages to succeed due to its performances despite its material.
Dunkirk – one of the best films of the year, one of the best films of Nolan’s oeuvre and one of the best war films of all time.
Mixing animation with live-action photography is a consistently compelling tactic in contemporary filmmaking. Whether it’s in comedies like Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam or in action films like Kill Bill Vol. 1, the additional work required to mix the two modes demands an artistic intention that makes the animation mean something more than what could be done with either mode on its own.
Derek Tsang's Soul Mate is an interesting, if never fully compelling, romantic drama about the love and friendship shared by Ansheng (Zhou Dongyu) and Qiyue (Sandra Ma), two Chinese women who meet at age 13 and grow up, apart and back together.