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TIFF Review: The Peasants is a Visually Breathtaking Misfire from the Directors of Loving Vincent

After 2017’s Loving Vincent and Toronto International Film Festival world premiere The Peasants, it is clear that DK Welchman and Hugh Welchman have developed ...

TIFF Review: The Teacher Takes a Tragic Yet Hopeful Look at Living in a State of Oppression

Writer-director Farah Nabulsi brilliantly showcased the abject futility of living under occupation with her Oscar-nominated short The Present a couple years ag...

TIFF Review: Days of Happiness Brings a Crescendo of Catharsis

These should be joyful times for Emma (Sophie Desmarais). She's thought of as the top of her class and is about to finish a year-long residency conducting for ...

Yorgos Lanthimos and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi Take Top Venice Film Festival Prizes

With Venice Film Festival wrapping up after quite an epic year, Damien Chazelle's jury handed out their awards, giving the top prize to Yorgos Lanthimos' Poor ...

Venice Review: Society of the Snow is J.A. Bayona’s Most Humanist Film to Date

In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed deep in the Andes, en route to Chile. The 45 passengers included the Old Christian Rugby team, friends, and fam...

TIFF Review: Dicks: The Musical is a Satire of Pure Provocation

When God (Bowen Yang) sees two virile young men plowing women, selling gears, and telling everyone they know that they do both of those things better than anyo...

TIFF Review: The Queen of My Dreams is a Time-Hopping Dramedy with Depth

The apple rarely falls far from the tree and religion too often convinces said apple and tree of the opposite. This is the case with Mariam (Nimra Bucha) and A...

TIFF Review: Lesbian Cheerleader Drama Backspot is All Glitz, No Substance

If you’re looking for recent movies about the uniquely harrowing experience of female perfectionism, there’s the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana, Laure...

TIFF Review: Raoul Peck’s Silver Dollar Road is an Intimate Family Portrait That Extrapolates America’s History of Discrimination

If Raoul Peck’s previous two films––the sweeping essay documentary I Am Not Your Negro and the painterly authorial portrait The Young Karl Marx––set aims to na...

TIFF Review: North Star is a Likable Yet Formulaic Directorial Debut for Kristin Scott Thomas

They say, "Write what you know." So Kristin Scott Thomas does with her directorial debut North Star. Co-written by John Micklethwait, the film centers on three...

News

Metrograph Launches Print Publication with Inaugural Issue Featuring Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Clint Eastwood, Ari Aster & More

Léa Seydoux, Lee Kang-sheng, Margaret Qualley, Steven Yeun, Natalie Portman, Armie Hammer & More Set Next Roles

Exclusive: Paul Schrader’s Next Films Involve a Pederast Professor and a Wall Street-Set Erotic Thriller

Trailers

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Steven Soderbergh Tells a Ghost Story in New Trailer for Presence

Exclusive Trailer for Jōhatsu, a Lithuanian Thriller Exploring a Japanese Phenomenon

Reviews

Juror #2 Review: Courtroom Thriller Represents the Best from Clint Eastwood’s Late Era

The Graduates Review: A Melancholic Look at a Community Bonded by Tragedy

AFI Fest Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Here Plays Like the Anti-Boyhood

Features

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Posterized November 2024: A Traveler’s Needs, Queer, Flow, Bird & More

New to Streaming: Catherine Breillat, The Substance, Last Things, The Apprentice, and More

Interviews

“Nobody Ever Gave Me Anything”: Alan Rudolph on Robert Altman, Bruce Willis, Kurt Vonnegut, and Resurrecting Breakfast of Champions

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat Director Johan Grimonprez on a Jazz-Fueled, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Displaced Blackness

The Making of the Indian Sci-Fi Box-Office Sensation Kalki 2898 AD

Podcasts

The B-Side – Vincent Price (with Gavin Mevius)

The B-Side – Tim Burton (with Maria Lewis)

The Film Stage Show Farewell Episode – Megalopolis

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