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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...

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...

News

Japan Cuts Announces 2026 Slate Featuring Hirokazu Kore-eda, Gakuryu Ishii, Yoji Yamada & More

Alice Rohrwacher to Direct The Baron in the Trees; Next Film to Be Primarily Silent

Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord Wins Palme d’Or: See Full List of Cannes 2026 Winners

Trailers

Cemre Paksoy’s Hands Are Tied In Trailer for Georgia Bernstein’s Sinister Sundance Favorite Night Nurse

Marcello Mastroianni Yearns In Trailer for 4K Restoration of Luchino Visconti’s White Nights

Exclusive Trailer for Greg Vrotsos’ Feature Debut Situations Follows a Journey of Love and Ambition in Los Angeles

Reviews

The Death of Robin Hood Review: A Portrait of the Outlaw as a Bald-Faced Lie

Tribeca Review: Here I’m Alive Is a Raw, Intimate Look at Messy New York Lives

I Am Frankelda Review: Mexico’s First Stop-Motion Feature Speaks Truth to Power

Features

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

NYC Weekend Watch: Douglas Sirk in 3D, The Organizer, Body Double & More

The Film Stage’s 2026 Tribeca Festival Portrait Gallery

Interviews

“The Hard Work Is In the Screenwriting”: John Sayles on Resourceful Filmmaking, James Cameron, and His TIFF Retrospective

The Currents Director Milagros Mumenthaler on Sensory Filmmaking, Motherhood, and Capturing an Internal State

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

Podcasts

The B-Sides of Goldie Hawn with Jen Johans

The B-Sides of Laurence Fishburne with Mitchell Beaupre

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

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