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TIFF Review: Under the Volcano Gives Form to the Purgatory of Survival in Times of Horror

They always knew a full-scale invasion of Ukraine could happen, but they held onto hope it wouldn't. How else could they enjoy a vacation abroad in the Canary ...

TIFF Review: Marielle Heller’s Nightbitch Could Use More Bite

Is there a point to a metaphor if a filmmaker does all the unpacking for you? That was my main takeaway from Nightbitch, Marielle Heller’s adaptation of Rachel...

TIFF Review: Ron Howard’s Eden Is an Ambitious Disappointment

On paper, there are few filmmakers who seem less-suited to the rigors of a project like Eden than Ron Howard. This is the grim story, after all, of real-life i...

TIFF Review: On Swift Horses Is an Endearing Melodrama With an Alluring Ensemble

It's been some time since we've had such a ridiculously attractive lineup of buzzworthy young actors as the quartet starring in Daniel Minahan’s On Swift Horse...

TIFF Review: The Fire Inside Is an Inspiring Sports Movie Coming at the Right Moment

It’s difficult to keep sending back 12-year-old Claressa Shields (Jazmin Headley) when she’s got more fight in her than any of the boys he’s training, but that...

TIFF Review: We Live in Time is a Moving Look at the Ebb and Flow of a Relationship

It’s all about perspective. Six great months living the rest of your life to the fullest or twelve miserable ones trying to survive? Sacrificing present happin...

Rooney Mara is Under Pressure in First Trailer for Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina

While we ponder how exactly the fiasco surrounding Todd Haynes' would-be next film is going down in the household of Joaquin Phoenix and Carol star Rooney Mara...

TIFF Review: The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos Captures a David vs. Goliath Fight

The cinematic arm of the Slum Dwellers International and affiliates’ campaign to expose injustice wrought upon waterfront communities in Nigeria’s largest city...

TIFF Review: Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck is a Childish Take on Universal Experience

In just over a decade, Mike Flanagan went from promising indie director to one of the best American genre filmmakers working today. Starting with Absentia and ...

TIFF Review: Joshua Oppenheimer’s Bunker-Set Musical The End Offers Earnest Look at Redemption

Chatting with the head of a prominent documentary-production company recently, I asked if hybrid filmmaking had reached its natural limit. Could it conceivably...

News

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

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

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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