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TIFF Review: Stamped From the Beginning Emboldens American History with Black Feminist Perspectives

If your education was only gleaned from the American public school system, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and Rosa Parks may be the only Black historical f...

TIFF Review: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person is Blissfully Sweet Horror

It’s such a wonderfully simple yet utterly unique premise. Ever since Sasha (Sara Montpetit) was a young vampire, she’s been unable to bare her fangs. Maybe it...

TIFF Review: Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils is Potentially Horrible, Never Boring

You have to hand it to Atom Egoyan: no matter how many flops he’s accrued, he won’t chase trends. While his new film Seven Veils positions itself in the high-d...

TIFF Review: American Fiction is a Sharp Satire and Exemplary Showcase for Jeffrey Wright

Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is in a rut. He’s still trying to get a publisher to accept his latest book in a market that doesn’t exactly embrace his erudite styl...

TIFF Review: Kate Winslet Shines in Lee, an Involving but Predictable Biopic

There are few actors who command the screen like Kate Winslet, and with Ellen Kuras’ Lee, the thespian has one of her sturdiest roles in years. As tenacious, g...

TIFF Review: Reptile Can’t Shed its Made-for-Streaming Look and Feel

For a first feature, Grant Singer could certainly do worse than Reptile. The question remains whether Netflix is capable of allowing anything better than routi...

TIFF Review: Not a Word Captures an Intense Search for Reconciliation

We can tell something is amiss the moment Nina (Maren Eggert) smiles and reminds her son Lars (Jona Levin Nicolai) that they only have “ten days left.” The way...

TIFF Review: The Holdovers is a Heavily Nostalgic, Likable Return for Alexander Payne

In the midst of a festival setting, catching up with all the best of world cinema and the contemporary avant-garde, you basically hope––sometimes even luckily ...

TIFF Review: Next Goal Wins Checks the Boxes of a Feel-Good Underdog Story

Taika Waititi had two goals when approaching Next Goal Wins: one was to make sure people who looked like him found their way onto mainstream screens; two was m...

TIFF Review: Dear Jassi Finds Tarsem Singh Returning with a Tragic Romance of Palpable Chemistry

The quasi-narrator who bookends Tarsem Singh's return to the big screen with the India-set Dear Jassi doesn't quite know where to start his ripped-from-the-hea...

News

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Trailers

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Reviews

The Drama Review: Kristoffer Borgli’s Provocations Mask Greater Ignorance

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Features

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Interviews

François Ozon on the Existentialism of The Stranger, Arab Representation, and Bressonian Acting

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Podcasts

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