April 25, 2024

Articles by Alan Jones

TIFF '13 Review: A Story of Children and Film

By Alan Jones | September 10th, 2013
Mark Cousins comprehensive documentary on children in cinema has a bad habit of telling you what to thinkRead More

TIFF '13 Review: The Past

By Alan Jones | September 9th, 2013
The follow up film from A Separation director Asghar Farhadi is a potent combination of drama and mysteryRead More

TIFF '13 Review: Made in America

By Alan Jones | September 9th, 2013
Ron Howard's concert doc of Jay Z's Made In America festival celebrates consumerism as much as it does individualismRead More

Bruce McDonald Brings 'The Husband' to TIFF

By Alan Jones | September 9th, 2013
McDonald has been bringing his films to TIFF since 1989 and this year he's back at the “big kids' table”Read More

TIFF '13 Review: Gravity

By Alan Jones | September 9th, 2013
George Clooney and Sandra Bullock's space thriller is more like '127 Hours' than '2001'Read More

TIFF '13 Review: Labor Day

By Alan Jones | September 8th, 2013
Jason Reitman's latest piece of Oscar bait reveals his strange obsession with the nuclear familyRead More

TIFF '13 Review: 12 Years a Slave

By Alan Jones | September 8th, 2013
Steve McQueen's unflinching drama provides a devastating look at the horrors of slaveryRead More

TIFF '13 Review: When Jews Were Funny

By Alan Jones | September 7th, 2013
Spending 90 minutes with a bunch of comedians riffing on Jewish identity is not a complete waste of timeRead More

TIFF '13 Review: The Fifth Estate

By Alan Jones | September 6th, 2013
The “WikiLeaks movie” is a film about the new guard made by the old guard, and the old guard doesn't really know what they're talking aboutRead More
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