Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery opens in theaters on November 26 and arriv...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2025 TIFF coverage. Rental Family opens in theaters on November 21.
There is a moment early in Hik...
The world has long needed a memoir from Abel Ferrara, and now we’ve got one, along with smart studies of the lives and careers of Clint Eastwood, Jonathan Demm...
Steven Soderbergh will not stop, and we should be thankful for that. His second film of 2025, The Christophers, is easily the year's least essential, yet it ha...
There's no telling whether Park Chan-wook is a fan of the Sex Pistols. But during his latest film, No Other Choice, I found myself pondering the line John ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 TIFF coverage. Eden opens in theaters on August 22.
On paper, there are few filmmakers who se...
David Lynch passed a little more than six months ago, and the world of cinema is still mourning. (Honestly, that may never end.) Let’s start with a book devote...
With summer time upon us, it is fitting to begin with the most sun-drenched feature of Wes Anderson’s career, followed by a gem from J. Hoberman, an essential ...
Note: This review was originally published as part of our 2024 TIFF coverage. Friendship opens in theaters on May 9.
The level of enjoyment audience members...
We are now well into 2025, and our latest column features several books that will likely rank among the year’s finest and most important releases. Plus, this c...
Christopher Schobert is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic who has written for numerous outlets worldwide and covered film festivals in Toronto, New York, and London. Currently, he writes reviews and features for The Film Stage, writes a monthly cinema column for Buffalo Spree magazine, and discusses film as a regular guest on the Shredd and Ragan radio show on Buffalo’s 97 Rock.
