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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...

TIFF Review: ‘My English Cousin’ is a Bittersweet Adventure Devoid of Answers

It's been seventeen years since Fahed Mameri left Algeria to achieve a better life in England. Since then he has settled in Grimsby (a place with high unemploym...

TIFF Review: ‘The County’ Shows a Quest for Retribution in Authentically Comical Ways

The devolution of a worker-owned entity into that which it was formed to combat probably occurs much faster than you'd expect. Things initially work like they s...

First Trailer for Sophia Takal’s Horror Remake ‘Black Christmas’

After successfully teaming up for the “New Year, New You” episode of Hulu’s Into the Dark, producer Jason Blum and director Sophia Takal are reteaming to re...

U.S. Trailer for Marco Bellocchio’s Mafia Drama ‘The Traitor’

After a somewhat muted reception at Cannes earlier this year, Sony Pictures Classics has just released the first trailer for Italian director Marco Bellocch...

TIFF Review: Stellan Skarsgård & Andrea Bræin Hovig Search for ‘Hope’ in Revelatory Drama

Tomas (Stellan Skarsgård) was married with three children when Anja (Andrea Bræin Hovig) met him. She didn't want to fall in love, but twenty years and three mo...

TIFF Review: ‘Maria’s Paradise’ Goes Inside a Community of Malleable Souls

At twelve years old, Maria Åkerblom heard the voice of an angel. It came in a dream and she spoke its words to those around her as though in a trance. She becam...

TIFF Review: ‘Love Me Tender’ is a Strangely Enchanting Survival Story

Seconda (Barbara Giordano) is the second born child of Augusto (Maurizio Tabani) and Dominique (Anna Galante) and she cannot leave the house. Her agoraphobia mi...

News

David Fincher’s The Adventures of Cliff Booth Sets Global IMAX Release This November

Leos Carax’s Annette Follow-Up Lily May B to Shoot Next Year with Jenna Ortega

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

Trailers

Exclusive Trailer for Bouchra Presents an Acclaimed, Personal Hybrid Animation

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

Reviews

Cannes Review: Low Expectations Is an Accomplished and Bittersweet Debut

Cannes Review: Steven Soderbergh’s John Lennon: The Last Interview Is a Breezy, Inessential Documentary

Tuner Review: An Entertaining, Conveniently Scripted Caper

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Kim Ki-young, Popeye, A New Leaf & More

New to Streaming: Miroirs No. 3, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, Mother Mary, Palestine 36 & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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 Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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

The B-Sides of Chow Yun-Fat

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