City Hall Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A monumentally vast documentary capturing the full tapestry of Boston city services in painstaking detail, giving a uniquely sprawling portrait of the daily y functional reality of the life of a major city. The Good Frederick Wiseman is a uniquely passionate and through filmmaker who has dedicated a lifetime to capturing America on [...]
New Order Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A cautionary tale set during a violent protest in Mexico City exploring how quickly the tenuous social fabric we rely on can collapse. A bride finds herself caught up in the military crackdown against protests and imprisoned in order to be ransomed back to her wealthy upper class family. The Good In 2020 [...]
40 Years A Prisoner Review TIFF 2020
The Plot This HBO documentary provides an explosive and detailed account of the bitter 1978 stand-off between an activist commune in the heart of Philadelphia and the city’s police. The lengthy siege ended with the death of a police office and nine MOVE activists receiving maximum sentences of between 30 and 100 years in prison. [...]
Pieces of A Woman Review TIFF 2020
The Plot An unblinking account of a young couple from different backgrounds navigating the most painful loss imaginable when the planned home birth of their first child spirals into unspeakable tragedy. The Good At a time when the cinematic landscape is so often dominated by fantastical special effect fuelled escapism, this film immediately feels like [...]
76 Days Review TIFF 2020
The Plot Director Hao Wu’s & Weixi Chen’s detailed documentary account of life inside the 76 day lockdown in the Chinese city of Wuhan. The original epicentre of the COVID 19 global pandemic. Following a small team of hospital workers as they struggle to deal with the unprecedented medical crisis and a relentless stream of [...]
Wolfwalkers Review TIFF 2020
The Plot In 17th century Ireland during the height of Oliver Cromwell’s puritanical reign a hunter’s young daughter ventures out into the untamed woods and strikes up an unlikely friendship with a wild girl. Their powerful newfound bond potentially holding the key to saving them both and the magical wolf pack that protects the forest. [...]
MLK/FBI Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A documentary film exploring newly declassified US government documentation of the FBI’s relentless surveillance campaign against Martin Luther King Jr. The Good Director Sam Pollard has carefully assembled a complete visual record of the fraught and deeply adversarial relationship between Nobel Prize winning civil rights spokesman Martin Luther King Jr and J Edgar [...]
The Kid Detective Review TIFF 2020
The Plot A once celebrated and respected kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naïve young client offers him a daunting last chance at redemption by hiring him to solve her boyfriend’s brutal murder. The Good The Kid Detective has a unique and [...]
Monday Review TIFF 2020
The Plot Wildly sexual and romantic sparks fly when two Americans Chloe and Mickey meet in Greece and launch into an unlikely relationship, facing the immediate pressure of her imminently planned departure back to America. Their powerful connection instantly provokes difficult questions about whether or not it’s possible for such a spontaneous encounter to actually [...]
The Third Day Review TIFF 2020
The Plot Sam a man already dealing with complicated personal problems and a traumatic past ends up unintentionally trapped on a mysterious island off the British coast. Unable to return to the mainland or easily contact the outside world, he grapples to understand the inhabitants and their strange customs. Faced by turns with an idyllic [...]