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San Sebastian Review: Ulrich Seidl’s Controversial Sparta Examines Pedophilia with a Non-Judgmental View

Ulrich Seidl is a director of curiosities, of shabby characters, pursued with an uncompromising and sometimes unfashionable gaze. Yet Sparta arrives in competi...

TIFF Review: Sidney Maintains an Icon’s Sanitized Likability

With Sidney Poitier's own voice providing the narrative backbone to Reginald Hudlin's documentary Sidney, we get to rediscover just what a wonderful storytelle...

Casablanca Beats Review: Inspiring Musical Treads Familiar Territory Effectively

The subgenre of "ambitious outsider teacher who is determined to inspire a ragtag group of disenchanted students" is well-worn, to put it mildly. Yet when the ...

TIFF Review: Joyland is a Tasteful But Passionless Family Drama

Another example of a tasteful but passionless festival film, Saim Sadiq’s feature debut Joyland errs on the side of arch family drama when its most interesting...

To the Moon Review: A Violent, Surprising, and Reality-Blurring Psychological Thriller

"Malevolent" is the word Dennis (writer-director Scott Friend) uses to describe his estranged brother Roger (Will Brill). That's quite the adjective without co...

TIFF Review: Concrete Valley is a Moving But Disjointed Immigrant Drama

Welcome to Antoine Bourges' love letter to the Thorncliffe Park apartment complex, better known as "Arrival City"—the usual landing spot for new immigrants com...

TIFF Review: No Bears Is a Curb Your Enthusiasm-Esque Act of Defiance By Jafar Panahi

Jafar Panahi’s career can now be split into two distinct sections: his work prior to an initial 2010 arrest amidst Iran’s Green Movement, and his creative resp...

TIFF Review: Hong Sangsoo’s Walk Up is Relaxing in its Languid Rhythms

If one thing of late really sets Hong Sang-soo apart, it’s his unglamorous depiction of the film director. Appropriate to the small-scale of his corpus, these ...

TIFF Review: All Quiet on the Western Front Sacrifices Brutality for Cliché

In a year and festival where Steven Spielberg releases a reflective film on his own life and relationship to cinema, it's understandable that we get a war film...

TIFF Review: Autobiography Explores the Power Struggle Between Military and Citizenry

General Purna (Arswendy Bening Swara) never had a son, so returning to his mansion to ready for a reelection campaign (the days of military dictatorship in Ind...

News

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Trailers

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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

17 Films to See in November

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tony Leung, Johnnie To, and Chiara Mastroianni Talk Cinema’s Future as the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival Begins

Interviews

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

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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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