May 27, 2014

Jason Anderson is a freelance critic and writes regularly about film for The Toronto Star, Cinema Scope, Artforum.com, Sight & Sound and Movie Entertainment. He’s also written for Uncut, Entertainment Weekly, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Reader’s Digest Canada, Men’s Fashion and many other publications. He’s served on juries for Hot Docs, Reel Asian, […]

May 7, 2024

Linda Barnard was a freelance film critic with a career spanning more than 30 years in Canadian daily newspapers. A graduate of Ryerson University (BAA Journalism), she joined the Star and thestar.com in 2002, moving to the Entertainment department in 2005, becoming part of the Star’s team covering film in 2007. Barnard is a 2014 National […]

August 15, 2016

Tina Hassannia is a freelance film critic who has been published in The National Post, The Globe and Mail, and many more. Her book Asghar Farhadi: A Life in Cinema was published in 2014 by The Critical Press.

November 3, 2014

A former president of the TFCA, Bruce Kirkland has been a reporter with Sun Media for 31 years. He has worked the movies beat from 1980-2007, and still focuses on TIFF, Cannes, Oscars. Before taking a position at the Toronto Sun, he worked at the Ottawa Journal as entertainment editor and movie critic from 1979-80, […]