Tag Archives: TIFF2020

#TIFF2020 Reviews — Concrete Cowboy, The Disciple, Inconvenient Indian

September 15, 2020 flawintheiris

Concrete Cowboy | Directed by Ricky Staub | Written by Staub and Dan Walser, based on the book by Greg Neri | 111 min Knowing this film is based on a Young Adult novel explains a lot about a narrative that seems a lot less complex than it promises to be early on. Fourteen-year-old Cole (Caleb McLaughlin,… Read More

#TIFF2020 Review — Nomadland

September 13, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Chloé Zhao, based on the book by Jessica Bruder | 108 min The book this film is based on — Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century — is non-fiction. Its writer, Jessica Bruder, also wrote this article for Harpers, which informs the screenplay. Zhao uses non-actors in the picture including… Read More

#TIFF2020 Review — Enemies of the State

September 11, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Sonia Kennebeck | 103 min A true-crime documentary in the vein of Andrew Jarecki's Capturing The Friedmans, Kennebeck (produced by Errol Morris) deftly and deliberately lays out the case for and against one Matt DeHart. He's a young man from a military-serving, god-fearing Indiana family who early on took an interest in computers… Read More