TIFF Review: The Critic is an Improbable, Grim Farce Enlivened by Ian McKellen
Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve has ably demonstrated that a catty feud between theater critics and actresses is crackling subject mat...
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TIFF Review: Defiant Puts a Spotlight on the Battle for Ukraine
For much of Karim Amer's reliably efficient documentary Defiant we follow Dmytro Kuleba, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine. Following ...
NYFF Review: Frederick Wiseman Indulges with Restaurant Doc Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
The first of Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros' four hours moves as quick as a glacier. Herbs are inspected at a farmer's market. Two chefs weig...
TIFF Review: Sorry/Not Sorry is a Reductive Inquiry into the Cancellation of Louis C.K.
No institution can dodge Louis C.K.'s comedic legacy and sexual allegations, TIFF included, where he appeared immediately pre-#MeToo with h...
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Terence Davies on Bringing Poetry to Life, Directing His New Short, and Planning His Next Feature
Special is the opportunity to speak with one of our great living filmmakers; doubly rare is a chance to do so as their latest project premieres on YouTube. Par...
Nicolas Cage Enters Your Mind in First Trailer for Dream Scenario
In a rare feat, Kristoffer Borgli premiered his second U.S. release of the year after the jet-black Norwegian comedy Sick of Myself. Teaming him with Nico...
Joachim Trier and Renate Reinsve Plot Worst Person in the World Reunion Sentimental Value
Legend has it Renate Reinsve's still running with a joyful expression, but Joachim Trier is soon bringing her back into the fold: with regular co-writer Eskil ...
The Criterion Collection’s December Lineup Includes Guillermo del Toro, The Red Balloon Box Set, and Blast of Silence
And with that, Criterion's year closes out. They've ended 2023 with a small set of additions, on the 4K front rescuing Guillermo del Toro and Mark Gustafson's ...
TIFF Review: Sing Sing is an Emotionally Restorative Portrait of the Artistic Process
“We are here to become human again.” This is the mantra of the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program, founded in Sing Sing Correctional Facility, a prison ju...
TIFF Review: Lukas Moodysson’s Together 99 is a Bittersweet, Bruising Reunion
The idyllic dream of leftist commune living, where resources and skills are shared for the greater good, needs a key ingredient to work: people. Two decades af...
TIFF Review: The Promised Land Showcases Mads Mikkelsen in a Light, Entertaining Piece of Historical Fiction
After his 2012 film A Royal Affair received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, Danish writer-director Nikolaj Arcel did what probably seemed l...
A Haunting in Venice Review: Kenneth Branagh Reaches Poirot Peak with His Best-Directed Work in Decades
A Haunting in Venice is both the best Kenneth Branagh film and the best Agatha Christie adaptation in decades. Adapted from the famed mystery writer's 1969 nov...
Exclusive Trailer for Jeremy Thomas Retrospective Brings Together Cronenberg, Glazer, Ôshima, Skolimowski, Bertolucci, Jarmusch & More
To celebrate the release of Mark Cousins' new documentary The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, a portrait of the Oscar-winning producer responsible for bringing to lif...
TIFF Review: Widow Clicquot Proves a Captivating, Exquisitely Told Biopic
The first thing we learn at the start of Thomas Napper's Widow Clicquot is that Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot (Haley Bennett) loved her husband François (Tom...