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TIFF Review: Riceboy Sleeps is a Non-Judgemental Look at Being Caught Between Two Worlds

So-Young (Choi Seung-yoon) didn't want to leave South Korea. She had no choice. The father of her newborn son committed suicide and, as an orphan who was never...

TIFF Review: Stellar Captures a Budding Romance with Celestial Power

It's all a matter of perspective. If you've never known a privileged existence, what difference to your world would an apocalypse truly introduce? There's alwa...

TIFF Review: The Fabelmans is Warm, Witty, and One of Steven Spielberg’s Most Rewarding Family Tales

Judging from the pre-release information surrounding Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, it was clear the endeavor could attain the label of the master director’...

TIFF Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a Blast of a Sequel

There was really only one way for Rian Johnson to proceed with Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. The sequel to his 2019 whodunnit smash that introduced the es...

TIFF Review: Sisu Offers Bad Vibes with No Reward

So we finally arrive at the epic baconification of World War II. With enough Tarantino-esque chapter headings that you won’t for a second forget its place in t...

The Fabelmans Trailer: Steven Spielberg Goes Home

Early word is out and early word is good: The Fabelmans seems to have reconciled Spielberg's flair for spectacle and wonder with the mundanity of his upbringin...

TIFF Review: Sweet As Offers a Contemporary Update to The Breakfast Club

It didn't take long after watching Jub Clerc's Sweet As to see the comparison point my mind went to first (The Breakfast Club) was hardly an original thought. ...

TIFF Review: Muru is a Justifiably Angry Depiction of New Zealand’s Inherent Racism

New Zealand's Tūhoe people have faced more than a century of aggression for daring to keep their culture alive. As relayed at the start of Tearepa Kahi's thril...

TIFF Review: Bones of Crows Tells an Epic Story of Survival During a Shameful Period of Canadian History

It starts in the 1800s. That's when the first residential schools were opened across Canada as a means of "beating the Indian" out of Indigenous children. The ...

TIFF Review: A Gaza Weekend is a Middle Eastern Comedy Finding Truth in Satirization

Director Basil Khalil and co-writer Daniel Ka-Chun Chan waste no time setting the tone for their Middle Eastern comedy A Gaza Weekend. Conceived over a decade ...

News

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

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

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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