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TIFF Review Roundup: Day 11
This year, TIFF added an extra bonus day to the festival, just to give us all a chance to catch up on films you might have missed. So instead of doing our usual review recap, here are a few films we really liked that are screening on Sunday. Gotta Catch ‘em all! Athina Rachel Tsangari’s ATTENBERG (
), which we like more and more the more we think about it, screens at noon at the Varsity 8. Michael Winterbottom’s hilarious Coogan/Brydon road movie The Trip (
) screens for the last time at 3 p.m. at the Ryerson. (Word is there are plans to break the film down into a TV mini-series, so this may well prove your last chance to see The Trip in its feature-length form.) Tsui Hark’s pleasant surprising wuxia epic Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame () screens today at 4 p.m. at the AMC 4, while at 6:15 p.m. Takahsi Miike’s bloody samurai epic 13 Assassins () unspools at the Scotiabank 1. There’s also Sylvain Chomet’s touching, beautifully animated The Illusionist, at 6:30 p.m. at the TIFF Bell Lightbox 2.
Sunday also offers a chance to catch two of the only four films we assigned perfect five-star ratings. Catch Kelly Reichardt’s magnificent Meek’s Cutoff (
) at 3 p.m. at the AMC 6, and Daniel Cockburn’s wildly intelligent debut You Are Here () at 4:15 p.m. at the AMC 10. And in case you missed it, we recently reviewed vampire flick Stake Land (
), which screens today, but which you could probably stand to miss.