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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...

TIFF Review: ‘Hearts and Bones’ Shows the Battle Raging Inside Survivors of War

After witnessing famed Australian war photographer Daniel Fisher (Hugo Weaving) endure a traumatic experience in Iran during the opening of Ben Lawrence's Heart...

TIFF Review: ‘White Lie’ Finds an Acute Sense of Place Amidst an Elaborate Scam

If a certain trend has emerged within the past half-decade of indie films, it’s the cinema of the grifter; very small-scale titles like Joel Potrykus’ Buzzard o...

TIFF Review: ‘Disco’ Conveys Contemporary Christianity as an Industry of Cult-Like Indoctrination

Contemporary, commercial Christian spaces are under the microscope in Disco, Norwegian filmmaker Jorunn Myklebust Syversen’s sophomore feature, which opens on a...

TIFF Review: Calm With Horses is a Stunning Drama Set in a Bleak World

To cross the Devers family is to earn retribution. This is a known fact to all in the rural Irish town of Glanbeigh. Some strangers arrive and overstep their bo...

TIFF Review: ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’ is a Breezy Distillation of Charles Dickens’ Masterpiece

David Copperfield (Dev Patel) has a story to tell. It begins with his cute, precocious little self (Jairaj Varsani) making mom laugh and nanny Mrs. Peggotty (Da...

TIFF Review: ‘Just Mercy’ is a Moving and Well-Acted if Predictable Death Row Drama

It is impossible to walk away from Just Mercy unmoved. This is a film in which the horrors of injustice are rampant, and deeply rooted racism is seemingly ever...

TIFF Review: ‘The Wild Goose Lake’ is a Gorgeously Abstract Crime Drama Rich with Meaning

“Ever thought of running away?” “Where to?” This exchange comes late in The Wild Goose Lake, the latest film from stylish Chinese genre filmmaker Diao Yinan (p...

TIFF Review: Eva Green is Spectacular in Alice Winocour’s Contemplative ‘Proxima’

A last-minute addition to a Mars mission precursor via the International Space Station, Sarah (Eva Green) is simultaneously excited and anxious. While space tra...

News

The Criterion Collection’s August Lineup Includes James Gray, Todd Haynes, and More

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Trailers

Sophie Thatcher and Charles Melton Lead First Teaser for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell

Exclusive Trailer and Poster for Lisandro Alonso’s Double Freedom Marks a Powerful Reunion

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Reviews

Cannes Review: The Unknown Stumbles on Its Own Gender Binarisms

Cannes Review: James Gray’s Paper Tiger Is a Masterfully Measured, Quintessentially Subtle New York Tale

Cannes Review: Na Hong-Jin’s Hope Is a High-Octane Creature Feature That Falls Flat

Features

New to Streaming: Yes, The Love That Remains, The Christophers, Project Hail Mary & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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Interviews

“Making Movies Should Be a Pleasure”: Olivier Assayas on The Wizard of the Kremlin

“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

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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