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TIFF Review: ‘The Wife’ Provides Glenn Close with One of Her Finest Performances

Playing Joan, the wife of a newly-announced Nobel Prize-winning novelist Joseph (Jonathan Pryce) whose career she has supported while setting her own ambitions ...

‘Tomb Raider’ Trailer: Alicia Vikander Gets into Action as Lara Croft

After winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Girl, Interrupted back in 2000, Angelina Jolie soon followed it up portraying Lara Croft in Tomb Raider. N...

TIFF Review: ‘Marrowbone’ is a Convoluted Mystery from the Writer of ‘The Orphanage’

For a mystery film, Sergio G. Sánchez’s Marrowbone inspires a lot of questions, although they’re more related to what’s outside the film. Here’s a question that...

Agnès Varda and JR Bring Joy to the World in U.S. Trailer for ‘Faces Places’

In a year of moral downfall in government and an overwhelming sense of despondency when looking at the dregs of humanity, leave it to Agnès Varda and JR to ...

TIFF Review: ‘Outside In’ is an Ex-Con Character Study Brought Down by Clichés

Lynn Shelton's latest film, Outside In, offers what you might expect from a screenplay co-written by mumblecore vet Jay Duplass and the director herself. The dr...

The Best Films at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival

We highlight our favorite films from this year's TIFF....

TIFF Review: ‘First Reformed’ Acts as the Full Realization of Paul Schrader’s Vision

Paul Schrader has been open about the original intentions for his most famous work, the screenplay to Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. Writing it in the vein of R...

TIFF Review: ‘The Disaster Artist’ is a Love Letter to Bad Cinema

The Room, a film produced, directed, written, and led by “entrepreneur” Tommy Wiseau, was supposed to be his grand artistic statement. What turned out instead w...

TIFF Review: Wim Wenders’ ‘Submergence’ is Dead on Arrival

I can't really be held accountable for believing that the combined efforts of legendary German auteur Wim Wenders, Academy Award-winner Alicia Vikander, and the...

‘Based on a True Story’ Trailer: Eva Green Weaves a Web of Deceit in Polanski-Assayas Thriller

"A psychological thriller directed by Roman Polanski and co-written by Polanski and Olivier Assayas – elevator pitches don’t get much more promising than th...

News

Exclusive: Altered Innocence Acquires Restoration of Srđan Karanović’s Virgina for Fall Release

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Trailers

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Film, I Am Frankelda, It’s Dorothy! & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

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