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The Film Stage Show Ep. 308 – Madeline’s Madeline

We discuss Josephine Decker's formally daring new film and its depiction of the creative process and mental illness....

Venice Review: ‘Introduzione all’Oscuro’ is an Illuminating Tribute to an Undeservedly Obscured Figure

Gaston Solnicki’s previous film Kekszakallu, which placed him on the festival circuit radar, resembles a documentary. A film about a group of teenage women born...

TIFF Review: The Lie is an Overwrought, Silly Drama with High Emotions

All kids grow up. Some parents grow apart. And the ramifications of this combination can have drastic effects. Jealousies might crop up to cause rifts while nos...

TIFF Review: ‘Teen Spirit’ is a Stylish if Familiar Pop Star Drama

If you haven’t had enough underdog tales about kids from the wrong side of the tracks trying to make it big, Max Minghella’s directorial debut Teen Spirit hits ...

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 ...

News

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Trailers

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Reviews

Tribeca Review: Sophia Takal’s Act One Feels Like a Lucid Nightmare

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

Features

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The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

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

Interviews

Michael Sarnoski on His Favorite Robin Hood Films and the Character’s Violent Mythology

Read This: Wonderful and Strange Peaks, the Life of Hannibal Lecter, a Century of Hitchcock, Martin Scorsese’s Filmography & More

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

Podcasts

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