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TIFF Review: ‘Molly’s Game’ is Undeniably Enjoyable and Hugely Forgettable

Molly’s Game is slick, flashy, highly entertaining, and hugely forgettable. Considering that it’s the directorial debut of Aaron Sorkin, that may come as a surp...

TIFF Review: ‘Let the Corpses Tan’ Displays Impressive Formalism, Without Much to Say

The filmmaking duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have gone about in some kind of relative obscurity since their first feature Amer in 2009. While that strikin...

TIFF Review: ‘Professor Marston and the Wonder Women’ Tells a Heroic Origin Story

Many probably don't know about the man who created Wonder Woman. It's not a surprise considering the decades it took to finally bring the character to the big s...

Review: ‘Spettacolo’ Offers a Quietly Ruminative Look at Tradition and Community

The cinematic representation of a kind of meta-art, a self-reckoning through artistic expression, is nothing new. Whatever the form, most depictions have center...

TIFF Review: ‘mother!’ is One of the Most Insane, Ludicrous Studio Releases in Years

Darren Aronofsky must love a good allegory, although making one himself appears to be a different matter entirely in mother!. Starting out as Aronofsky returnin...

TIFF Review: ‘Lady Bird’ is Wise, Funny, Remarkably Assured, and One of the Year’s Great Joys

Lady Bird is one of the year’s great joys. Greta Gerwig’s debut as a solo writer-director is so wise, so funny, and so remarkably assured that it seems to have ...

TIFF Review: ‘What Will People Say’ Tells a Harrowing Cautionary Tale

The Toronto International Film Festival synopsis calls Iram Haq's latest film What Will People Say an "empathetic story of family, community, and culture." I wo...

TIFF Review: ‘Five Fingers for Marseilles’ Relocates the Western to South Africa’s Eastern Cape

Director Michael Matthews and writer Sean Drummond were drawn to the landscapes of South Africa's Eastern Cape while traveling their homeland, especially the ec...

TIFF Review: ‘Stronger’ Pushes Beyond Biopic Clichés

Peter Berg’s take on unsung heroes Patriots Day is barely a year old and here we are with another Boston Marathon bombing film in David Gordon Green’s Stronger....

TIFF Review: ‘Thelma’ Blends Sexual Repression and the Supernatural with Mixed Results

It’s perhaps difficult to parse writer/director Joachim Trier’s exact intent in making Thelma, a film which is one part supernatural thriller, another superhero...

News

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Trailers

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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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