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Reviews: Curl Power from VIFF 2024

October 9, 2024

In Curl Power, a documentary directed by Josephine Anderson, we get a look at the impact that curling has on five teenage girls.

Reviews: Rumours from VIFF 2024

October 4, 2024

Final Rating: 3.5/5 Every year the leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) countries that represent the largest western liberal democracies, gather for a…

Reviews: The Mother and the Bear from VIFF 2024

October 3, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 It can be a difficult challenge to be a child of parents who have rigid expectations of you. It is predetermined…

Reviews: Conclave from VIFF 2024

October 2, 2024

Final Rating: 5/5 The pope has died and over one billion Catholics around the world are both grieving and wondering who the next pope…

Reviews: A Different Man from VIFF 2024

October 1, 2024

Final Rating: 3.5/5 We’ve seen and heard stories of people who grew up being the metaphorical ugly duckling and blossoming into a beautiful swan….

Reviews: Inedia from VIFF 2024

September 30, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 Sometimes our own bodies rebel against us despite how we try to live. It could be something like chronic back pain…

Reviews: Heretic from TIFF 2024

September 23, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 In a sermon from April 2003, Gordon B. Hinckley, then-president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints delivered…

Reviews: The Substance from TIFF 2024

September 20, 2024

Final Rating: 4/5 The Substance centres on Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore), an Oscar-winning actress and host of a popular fitness program whose star is…

Reviews: The Life of Chuck from TIFF 2024

September 19, 2024

Final Rating: 3.5/5 Few creators have had as much success adapting the work of horror legend Stephen King, and Mike Flanagan’s batting average would…

Reviews: Vice is Broke from TIFF 2024

September 18, 2024

In February 2024, Vice stopped publishing content to its website, following a Chapter 11 bankruptcy declaration the previous fall. This marked the end of an era for the outlet that had popularized a new form of guerrilla journalism in the 21st century. After 29 years and multiple buyouts, Vice was finally broke.