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Piggy

A psychological horror film not for the faint of heart.

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

Ana Lily Amirpour has given us is a valentine to the downtrodden. It’s like a Tom Waits tune covered by Duran Duran, and a delight.

Charcoal | TIFF 2022

This well-calibrated droll and dark satire has a life force that courses in serpentine ways that recall Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite.

The Wonder | TIFF 2022

The team behind this book adaptation spins a sinuous narrative of many colors. It’s easily one of the classiest films that Netflix has produced. 

The Banshees of Inisherin | TIFF 2022

A return to form for Martin McDonagh, with this dark, macabre comedy. Though the story is gritty, grim, and grotesque, the location lends it an almost epic-like grandeur.

Miracle

After a novice nun leaves her convent, a police inspector attempts to piece together what happened to her and why in this absorbing Romanian drama.

Riotsville, USA

A vivid time capsule of the late 1960s, when anything seemed possible.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed | TIFF 2022

Laura Poitras’s documentary biography of photographer and activist Nan Goldin fluidly connects the past with the present, and is among the strongest films about the 1980s New York art scene.

The Origin of Evil | TIFF 2022

The title of French director Sébastien Marnier’s thriller may sound more appropriate for the title of a sermon, but be not afraid. His film is instantly engaging, freewheeling, and playful,