The sly provocation, 'Fjord' largely takes place in a Norwegian hamlet nestled in what looks like heaven on earth. The setting is a small, thinly populated waterside town tucked in a valley and surrounded by sloping mountains. It's an extravagantly, hypno... See more
The most indelible image of Mark Zuckerberg isn't of him wearing 'pervert glasses.' It's of the fictional Mark that closes 'The Social Network,' the 2010 drama about the fraught creation of Facebook. By that point, Mark has turned friends into enemies, st... See more
"Digger" is such a lumbering white elephant of a movie that it almost makes you sorry for everyone involved. Making movies is always tough, and it can be harder still when a big studio production tries to say something. This one has an original script, go... See more
(Critic's Pick) The new documentary "NAZA" is tough to watch, and impossible to ignore. A shattering inquiry into Israel's military actions in the war in the Gaza Strip, it was directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, who also codirec... See more
(Critic's Notebook) TORONTO -- The Toronto International Film Festival opened Sept. 10 with a cheeky wink, the usual boosterism and a flood of tears. Cameron Bailey, the festival's debonair CEO, helped get the party started when he took the stage at the c... See more
