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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...

TIFF Review: ‘Verónica’ is an Intense, But Familiar Tale of Demonic Possession

The story goes that the police were dispatched to a Madrid residence in June of 1991 only to find a teenage girl screaming from what appeared to be self-inflict...

TIFF Review: ‘The Lodgers’ is Beautiful Gothic Horror That Doesn’t Resonate

A family’s shame marks them forever—their fate sealed by birth, bound by a poem’s rules. They must be locked in their rooms by midnight, never let a stranger th...

TIFF Review: ‘Beyond Words’ is a Nuanced Immigration Drama

An African man—a hopeful immigrant—says something very interesting to his prospective lawyer Michael (Jakub Gierszal) at the start of Urszula Antoniak's Beyond ...

TIFF Review: ‘Valley of Shadows’ Teeters on the Edge of Reality and Nightmare

Six year-old Aslak (Adam Ekeli) lives a quiet life with his single mother Astrid (Kathrine Fagerland) in a rural town adjacent to farmland and a mountaintop for...

TIFF Review: ‘Kissing Candice’ Oozes Sexuality and Dark Glamour

With a first scene as stylish as that from Kissing Candice, the words "music video chic" come to mind before you can even discover writer/director Aoife McArdle...

TIFF Review: ‘Cardinals’ is a Singular Work of Devastating Emotional Psychology

The big story surrounding Grayson Moore and Aidan Shipley's feature debut Cardinals playing the Toronto International Film Festival stems from the fact that bot...

TIFF Review: ‘Euphoria’ Provides a Complex Role for Alicia Vikander Amidst Deflating Drama

It’s difficult to know what to make of Lisa Langseth’s Euphoria. At times it seems in the cusp of science fiction. But then... it isn’t. At other points it offe...

News

Cinema Guild to Unveil Otar Iosseliani Restorations This Summer

The Criterion Collection Announces Complete Stanley Kubrick 4K Set

NYC Weekend Watch: Masahiro Shinoda, Budd Boetticher in 3D, Carlito’s Way & More

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for 4K Restoration of Jae-young Kwak’s My Sassy Girl Reintroduces the South Korean Hit

James Baldwin Arrives In Paris In Trailer for Yashaddai Owens’ Jimmy, Opening This July

First Trailer for Robert Eggers’ Werwulf Unleashes the Devil Within

Reviews

Camp Review: An Absorbing, Dreamlike Journey of Finding Yourself

Jackass: Best and Last Review: Knoxville & Co. Return for One Last Encore

Romería Review: A Personal Tale of Intergenerational Dissonance

Features

New to Streaming: Blue Heron, I Love Boosters, Tuner, The Sheep Detectives & More

The Best Films of 2026 (So Far)

NYC Weekend Watch: Elaine May, Guy Maddin, Vincente Minnelli, Law of Desire & More

Interviews

“There’s No Incentive for a Filmmaker to Retire”: Alex Cox on Returning With Dead Souls

“Memory Is Not Something You Can Trust”: Carla Simón on Romería, Family Stories, and Antonioni

“There Are Always Fascists to Defeat”: John Waters on the Enduring Legacy of His Films and Never Getting Cancelled

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Steven Spielberg with Bilge Ebiri

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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