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TIFF Review: Women Talking is a Drama of Unimpeachable Politics and Fumbled Filmmaking

With Women Talking, Sarah Polley adapts Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel in a way that feels like a response to the last several years. The book, which concerns women ...

TIFF Review: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Stays True to the Artist’s Spirit

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story gets its subject in a way very few biopics ever have—by not really being a biopic at all. Rather, Weird approaches the life of son...

TIFF Review: Emily is an Emotionally Impactful, Breathtaking Interpretation of Brontë’s Life

Emily, the directorial debut for Mansfield Park and A.I.: Artificial Intelligence star Frances O’Connor, is one of the more remarkably assured first efforts in...

TIFF Review: Susie Searches is a Quirky Look at the Destructive Nature of Popularity

Susie Wallis (Kiersey Clemons) has never met a mystery she couldn't solve. At least not when it comes to those that populate the crime books her mother (Jammie...

TIFF Review: Fixation Takes a Disorienting Roller Coaster Ride Through the Subconscious

What did Dora (Maddie Hasson) do all those years ago? That's the question she's asking herself as she sits straightjacketed in a hospital she doesn't remember ...

TIFF Review: Rosie is an Adorably Infectious Coming of Age Story Set in a Montreal Melting Pot

The last thing Frédérique (Melanie Bray) needs is another mouth to feed. She's already sneaking out the fire escape to avoid her landlord and can barely hold d...

TIFF Review: My Sailor, My Love is a Delicate Look into the Familial Dynamics of Flawed People

Howard (James Cosmo) lives what appears to be a hermitic life of unwavering obstinance. He doesn't even open the door when his daughter Grace (Catherine Walker...

TIFF Review: I Like Movies Slackly Captures the Life of a Budding Cinephile

A reverie of 2002 and 2003 in Toronto's sleepy Burlington suburb, I Like Movies initially takes on the appearance of nostalgia with its sight of lined video st...

TIFF Review: Godland is Old-Fashioned, Muscular Moviemaking

Featuring onscreen text explaining how the film was inspired by left-behind photos taken by a Danish priest while visiting Iceland in the late 1800s (as oppose...

TIFF Review: The Inspection is a Work of Emotional Maturity

Positioned as a work of autobiography from first-time director Elegance Bratton, The Inspection is a flawed, if highly compelling promise of a new talented dra...

News

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

2024 Gotham Awards Nominations Unveiled

Yokohama BJ Blues Makes U.S. Theatrical Premiere on November 11 from Amnesiascope

Trailers

First Trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s Queer Follows Daniel Craig Searching for a High

Ride a Dreamlike Musical Carousel in Exclusive Trailer for Signe Birkova’s Lotus, Partly Shot on a 1920s Camera

Raoul Peck Investigates a Photographer Pioneer in First Trailer for Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

Reviews

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

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

AFI Fest Review: My Favourite Cake Finds an Autumnal Romance Blooming Under Iranian Authoritarianism

Features

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

New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

NYC Weekend Watch: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

Interviews

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

“100 Clichés Move Us”: Rumours Directors Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson & Galen Johnson on Finding Humor in a World in Crisis

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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