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TIFF Review: Riz Ahmed Struggles with Silence in the Intensely Emotional ‘Sound of Metal’

Sound of Metal opens with Riz Ahmed’s Ruben sitting at a drum kit while guitar distortions deafen us. Eventually, Olivia Cooke’s Lou starts screaming as his sti...

TIFF Review: Kristen Stewart Captures Seberg, But the Drama is Lopsided

Watch Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless—OK, watch it again—and it is impossible not to be struck by the mysterious, stunning, enigmatic Jean Seberg. Here was an acto...

TIFF Review: ‘1982’ Shows the Reverberations of a Divided Lebanon

Before 2007, all Lebanese men were conscripted to serve in the military for at least one year. I've heard from multiple people that it wasn't a question of citi...

Terrence Malick Casts Mark Rylance, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Géza Röhrig in ‘The Last Planet’

Update: Joseph Fiennes, Douglas Booth, Alfonso Postiglione, and Lorenzo Gioiell are also part of the cast, One Big Soul confirms. See the original story bel...

TIFF Review: Nina Hoss is a Volatile Violin Instructor in ‘The Audition’

German actor-director Ina Weisse brings a sense of quiet severity to her latest film The Audition, which intimately follows Anna (Nina Hoss), a violin instructo...

TIFF Review: ‘The Twentieth Century’ Excitingly Takes the Piss Out of Canadian History

Look out: we have a new entry in the “Great Man” biopic subgenre, one that has spawned films as varied as John Ford’s The Long Gray Line and, uh, Jay Roach’s Tr...

TIFF Review: ‘Anne at 13,000 ft’ is a Cathartic Sensory Experience Bolstered by an Impressive Deragh Campbell

Anne (Deragh Campbell) is in stasis. Doing four shifts a week at a Toronto daycare, she’s repeatedly given a hard time by co-workers (or the managerial state in...

TIFF Review: Golshifteh Farahani Listens in the Therapeutic ‘Arab Blues’

The original French-language title of Arab Bles is Un divan à Tunis, and true to the echo of Chantal Akerman’s psychotherapeutic meet-cute A Couch in New York, ...

TIFF Review: ‘About Endlessness’ Finds Roy Andersson’s Mood of Free-Floating Pathos Exquisitely Rendered

“What should I do now that I have lost my faith?” is the question that animates About Endlessness; this being the new film by Roy Andersson, it is delivered in ...

TIFF Review: In ‘Knuckle City,’ Escape is Only Possible Through the Boxing Ring

It's 1994 and young Dudu and Duke have little in the way of inspiring role models to build lives for themselves in Mdantsane, South Africa. Apartheid is over an...

News

Richard Kelly Releasing “Gigantic” Debut Novel This Year

Radu Jude Will Shoot New Feature Love Diptych Next Month

New Restoration of Ken Russell’s The Devils Leads Cannes Classics 2026 Lineup

Trailers

Nostalgia for the Future Exclusive Trailer: Charlotte Rampling Travels Through Chris Marker’s World in Cannes Premiere

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Bruno Dumont’s Red Rocks Captures Growing Up on the French Riviera

Maddie’s Secret Trailer: John Early Crafts a Sincere Satire in Directorial Debut

Reviews

Silent Friend Review: Tony Leung Finds a Flora Connection

The Misconceived Review: Incisive, Inventive Look at Contemporary Life

Blue Film Review: Masterful Two-Hander Confronts Flaws with Empathy

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Kazuhiko Hasegawa, Pynchonesque, Max and Richard Fleischer, the Pusher Trilogy & More

New to Streaming: The Drama, Send Help, Exit 8, and André Is an Idiot

Our 20-Most Anticipated 2026 Cannes Film Festival Premieres

Interviews

“Everything Is By Chance”: Tony Leung on Silent Friend, Léa Seydoux, and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Silent Friend Director Ildikó Enyedi on Capturing a Tree’s Perspective and the State of a Soul

Arnaud Desplechin on Two Pianos, Nervous Breakdowns, and Making Cinema Bigger Than Life

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Eddie Murphy with Nicholas Gray and Alvin Keith

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

Josh Heaps on the DIY Horror of City Wide Fever

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