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TIFF Review: Encounter is a Sci-Fi Thriller with Strong Performances and a Superficial Message

A meteorite falling to Earth disintegrates into stardust that subsequently permeates everything it touches. It hits the soil, enters a bug, is consumed again, ...

TIFF Review: DASHCAM Takes Abrasive, Bloody Stabs at Cultural Commentary

In 2020, filmmaker Rob Savage found himself stuck in place from pandemic lockdowns. Rather than wait things out, he got clever and, with friends, made the horr...

TIFF Review: Listening to Kenny G Masterfully Recontextualizes How We Absorb the Artist’s Music

While the premise of Penny Lane's Listening to Kenny G unfolds through the comedic question "why do so many people hate Kenny G?" it quickly reveals itself a r...

TIFF Review: Fabrice Du Welz Falters with Inexorable, a Rote Riff on a ’90s Thriller

While handsomely shot, well-cast, and occasionally atmospheric, the latest from Belgian director Fabrice Du Welz qualifies as a watchable disappointment. Inexo...

TIFF Review: Farha Vividly Depicts Palestinian History Through the Eyes of a Teenager

The text reads: Palestine, 1948. That's all you need to know to understand what's coming. A year earlier marked the start of the Palestinian Civil War between ...

TIFF Review: Silent Land Captures an Entitled Couple’s Gradual Emotional Implosion

Desperate for respite from their bourgeois lives in Poland, Adam (Dobromir Dymecki) and Anna (Agnieszka Zulewska) decide to vacation on a tiny Italian island. ...

TIFF Review: A Banquet is an Intimate, Nightmarish Portrait of a Fracturing Family

It's a question we ask through the duration of our lives: what's the point? Maybe you say these words in search of meaning where humanity as a species is conce...

TIFF Review: Radu Muntean’s Întregalde Uses a Horror Blueprint to Reach a Disappointing Destination

The title of Radu Muntean’s latest film comes from the remote Transylvanian village and surrounding area in which its unlucky protagonists find themselves stuc...

TIFF Review: The Story of My Wife is a Well-Shot, Monotonous Romantic Journey of Sparse Ideas

The best way to describe Ildikó Enyedi’s latest film is a disappointing Martin Eden. Despite having just as much of an eye for beautiful imagery as Pietro Marc...

TIFF Review: Mothering Sunday Achingly Portrays Damaged Souls in the Wake of WWI

Mother's Day, 1924: a day for servant girls to ride the train home to their mothers and wealthy mothers to have brunch with their children. Except that a post-...

News

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

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

Trailers

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

Michel Gondry Returns to Animation in First Trailer for Maya, Give Me a Title

Reviews

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

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

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

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Interviews

“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

“Less Money, More Liberty”: Paulo Branco on a Cinematic Life with David Cronenberg, Manoel De Oliveira, and Raúl Ruiz

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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