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TIFF Review: Quickening Follows a Pakistani Canadian Teenager’s Search for Autonomy

Writer-director Haya Waseem's feature debut Quickening is not about a pregnancy. Knowing this is crucial enough that she opens the film with the definition of ...

TIFF Review: The Daughter is a Pregnancy Drama That Grows into a Psychological Thriller

The plan is simple but risky. Javier (Javier Gutiérrez) has worked at a juvenile delinquent center for two decades, interacting with all kinds of troubled teen...

TIFF Review: Jagged is a Rousing, Uncensored Look at Alanis Morissette’s Rise to Fame

It really is strange to look back almost 30 years and realize just how seminal Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill was to rock music. Being only thirteen at...

TIFF Review: Ste. Anne is an Atmospheric, Experimental Manitoban Odyssey

It's been four years since Renée (Rhéanne Vermette) left home without a word. Four years that her brother Modeste (Jack Theis) and his wife Elenore (Valerie Ma...

Exclusive Trailer for Bill Morrison’s The Village Detective: a song cycle Exhumes Cinema History

Following up one of this century’s greatest films, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Bill Morrison returns with The Village Detective: a song cycle, another ...

TIFF Review: With Sundown, Michel Franco Methodically Keeps His Audience Off-Balance

Writer-director Michel Franco throws the first curveball early during his latest film Sundown. We've already spent a bit of time with his quartet of European c...

TIFF Review: Naomi Watts is on the Run in Phillip Noyce’s Flimsy Thriller Lakewood

Screenwriter Chris Sparling takes us back to the script that put him on the Hollywood map with Lakewood. Much like his isolated one-man show Buried, it focuses...

TIFF Review: You Are Not My Mother Delivers Irish Horror With Psychological Underpinnings

Despite leaving writer-director Kate Dolan's feature debut You Are Not My Mother with a lot more questions than answers, I don't think that reality is necessar...

Best Sellers Review: Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza Are a Formidable Comedic Duo

Harris Shaw (Michael Caine) is a writer in need of money. Lucy Stanbridge (Aubrey Plaza) is an editor/publisher in need of money. And it just so happens that a...

TIFF Review: Laurent Cantet’s Arthur Rambo Presents a Complex Web of Emotions

There's an interesting lesson to be learned at the center Laurent Cantet's Arthur Rambo—one it's honestly shocking to think still needs to be learned. I don't ...

News

Bertand Bonello, Takashi Miike, Nikyatu Jusu, and More Plan Next Features

James Gray to Direct Adam Driver, Jeremy Strong, and Anne Hathaway in Paper Tiger

Tarsem Singh, Jaume Collet-Serra, Kim Jee-woon, Paul W.S. Anderson & More Set Next Films

Trailers

Oh, Canada Trailer: Richard Gere Reflects on His Life in Paul Schrader’s Poignant Drama

Billy Zane Transforms into Marlon Brando in First Trailer for Waltzing with Brando

The End Trailer: Tilda Swinton, Michael Shannon, and George MacKay Ring in the Apocalypse

Reviews

Riga Review: Dreamy Stereoscopic 3D Folk Tale Twittering Soul is One of a Kind

Riga Review: Saulė Bliuvaitė’s Locarno-Winning Toxic Will Worm Its Way Inside You

AFI Fest Review: September 5 is a Competent But Bloodless Thriller

Features

Five Highlights from the 2024 Tokyo International Film Festival

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Tokyo International Film Festival Artistic Director Ichiyama Shôzô Offers Insight Into a Growing Organization

Interviews

NYC Weekend Watch: Ken Kelsch, Il Grido, Flesh for Frankenstein 3D & More

“Life Is Worth Celebrating”: Tyler Taormina on Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point

Kani Kusruti on All We Imagine as Light, Girls Will Be Girls, and Indian Moviegoing Culture

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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