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TIFF Review: ‘White Boy Rick’ Cuts Through the Bullshit of the American Dream

The pitch is as follows: Ricky Wershe Jr. (newcomer Richie Merritt) was a street hustler, drug kingpin, and FBI informant by the age of seventeen. If that doesn...

TIFF Review: ‘Halloween’ Honors the Spirit of John Carpenter’s Original

John Carpenter’s original Halloween is a testament to how much can be achieved through narrative economy and moody stylization. The film’s pioneering use of Pan...

TIFF Review: ‘Duelles (Mothers’ Instinct)’ Brings Melodramatic Suspense to an Idyllic Bourgeois Home

Director Olivier Masset-Depasse lets us know exactly what to expect out of Duelles (Mothers’ Instinct) from the start, introducing an idyllic bourgeois home wit...

TIFF Review: ‘Where Hands Touch’ Conveys an Interracial Nazi Romance with Complexity

Now is not the time to make a film romanticizing Nazism or allowing anyone who donned the swastika during World War II a modicum of sympathy. I'd argue there co...

TIFF Review: ‘Helmet Heads’ Features Broken Lizard-Esque Deadpan Humor in Central America

If Broken Lizard were Central American and deadpan, they might make something akin to Ernesto Villalobos' Helmet Heads. Think an extremely droll Super Troopers ...

TIFF Review: ‘In Fabric’ is Brazenly Weird and Wholly Retro

In Fabric is a film that’s wholly retro, and not just in how writer/director (and emerging remix artist) Peter Strickland embraces '70s Euro-horror tropes (and ...

TIFF Review: ‘The Front Runner’ is Jason Reitman’s Best-Directed Film

And so it began—sentiments that prove true only until the next example replaces it. We’re just two years removed from Donald Trump’s victory for president of th...

TIFF Review: ‘Capernaum’ Transcends the Nature Versus Nurture Argument

The synopsis doesn’t lie. Young Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is in prison, his five-year sentence just put into effect. He has no papers despite being born in Lebanon ...

TIFF Review: ‘Widows’ is a Timely, Tremendously Entertaining Heist Drama

Survival at all costs. That’s the theme–or, more precisely, a theme–of Steve McQueen’s timely, tremendously entertaining Widows. This is precision entertainment...

TIFF Review: ‘Beautiful Boy’ is an Aesthetically Rich, Narratively Dull Story of Addiction

There’s an interesting framing device within Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy that strangely only frames the first half of the film. It’s a scene wherein Da...

News

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Trailers

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Reviews

Cannes Review: Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Tales Is an Ambitious If Tedious Take on Kieślowski

Cannes Review: Gentle Monster Is a Masterfully Performed Drama In the Aftermath of Betrayal

Cannes Review: With Club Kid, Jordan Firstman Announces Himself as a Director to Watch

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

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