TIFF 2010 Review Roundup: Day Four

By John Semley

By our accounts, Saturday was a fairly mediocre day at TIFF. We saw a handful of films that were good, but not great. Still, they weren’t horrible, either. And that’s enough of a distinction. Adam Wingard’s serial killer thriller A Horrible Way to Die () is a refreshing change of pace from most of today’s horror flicks, but ultimately too nauseatingly stylized to be really great. South Korean director Kim Tae-Yong’s Late Autumn () trips up its Korean stars with a mostly English and Mandarin script. And Janus Metz’s Danish Afghanistan doc Armadillo () is so stunningly shot that you’ll swear you were watching a narrative drama, if you can even be bothered with watching another film about the conflicts in the Middle East.