Tina Hassannia

Tina Hassannia is the Executive Editor at Movie Mezzanine and a Toronto-based writer and film critic. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, The Village Voice, RogerEbert.com, and others. Her book Asghar Farhadi: Life and Cinema is available from The Critical Press. She co-hosts a podcast about Iranian film called Hello Cinema. Follow @tinahassannia. Website: http://www.tinahassannia.net

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TIFF Review: “London Fields”

9 years ago by Tina Hassannia

An adaptation of Martin Amis' 1989 novel, Matthew Cullen's London Fields distills the book's ideas into an unfortunate series of cliches and archetypes, never quite hitting upon the brilliance of Amis' peculiar world-building and prose – this, despite the fact...

TIFF Review: “Louder Than Bombs”

9 years ago by Tina Hassannia

Joachim Trier has built a strong body of work that explores the deep interiors and emotional fissures of depression and loss, and he continues exploring these preoccupations in his latest, Louder Than Bombs, an American middle-class-family melodrama based on t...

TIFF Review: “Legend”

9 years ago by Tina Hassannia

The Kray brothers enjoy a special place in British history as the notorious gangsters who controlled East End London in the 1960s, and in Brian Helgeland's Legend, the twin brothers are played by the beautiful and weird Tom Hardy twice over. He brings his odd ...

TIFF Review: “The Martian”

9 years ago by Tina Hassannia

Science can save us. Even if you’re an astronaut left behind for dead on Mars, it’s possible to “science the shit” out of staying alive. That’s the thesis behind Ridley Scott’s latest sci-fi blockbuster, based on the best-selling, scientifically accurate novel...