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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 ...

Venice 2022 Winners Include Laura Poitras, Alice Diop, Luca Guadagnino, Cate Blanchett & More

As our 2022 Venice Film Festival coverage wraps up, the juries have now unveiled their picks, most notably featuring Julianne Moore’s competition jury. Leading...

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...

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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