Author: Kate Erbland

As this year’s Toronto International Film Festival enters its final weekend (and now that Team FSR is already back on American soil and craving whole…

The dysfunctional family drama can pack it in now, because the genre has reached its zenith with John Wells’ spectacularly entertaining and unsettling August: Osage…

Four highly publicized documentaries in, it should go without saying that the West Memphis Three ordeal has taken up its fair share of screentime. The…

‘Can a Song Save Your Life?’ Review: Charmer Probably Won’t Save Anyone, But It Will Certainly Entertain Many John Carney’s Can a Song Save Your…

There’s no funny or punny way to put this – Jason Reitman’s Labor Day is a film about human needs and desires and so how…

Editor’s Note: This review originally appeared as part of our Sundance 2013 coverage, and now A Teacher being released into theaters near you. This year’s Sundance…

“I’m nobody in this story.” By the time Ahmed (Ali Mosaffa, consistently solid throughout the film) utters that comment halfway through Asghar Farhadi’s The Past,…

Toronto: land of prestige films, poutine, and Oscar buzz. At least, that’s what happens every September during the Toronto International Film Festival (poutine is, of…

It happens at every film festival, and this year’s Toronto International Film Festival is no different – a string of titles are announced that sound…