While it's understandable that many's most-anticipated films at a festival are also some of the biggest titles of the season––evidenced by the instant sell-out...
Thanks to the breakout success of his Oscar-winning drama A Separation back in 2011, Asghar Farhadi's earlier films have received newfound recognition thanks t...
There is, of course, the legend that Martin Scorsese's career nearly ended at Raging Bull: after the disappointments of New York, New York and attendant person...
As far as the music documentary is an extension of a brand experience, Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero provides an illuminating look behind the scenes, demystifyi...
Since his breakthrough 1994 feature Once Were Warriors, a troubling and fiery coming-of-age story indie set in New Zealand’s Maōri community, Lee Tamahori has ...
During the TIFF screening of Isiah Medina’s He Thought He Died, which was preceded by Blake Williams’ 3D short Laberint Sequences, nearly half the theater clea...
Films with child protagonists present a unique tonal challenge. If overly saccharine whimsy can alienate an adult audience, having precocious kids delivering m...
From its opening moments, an Orwelleian gloom envelopes Iranian director Farhad Delaram’s debut feature Achilles. The prying forces of an authoritarian governm...
Right from its opening moments, Austrian director Elisabeth Scharang’s Woodland is visually arresting, commanding one's attention. Which is fortunate as the fi...
Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s All About Eve has ably demonstrated that a catty feud between theater critics and actresses is crackling subject matter for witty, adult...