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‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ Review: Kogonada’s Grounded Perspective Is at Odds with Flighty and Sentimental Metaphysical Romance [C]

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‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ Review: Kogonada’s Grounded Perspective Is at Odds with Flighty and Sentimental Metaphysical Romance [C]

Trace Sauveur September 16, 2025

The only thing more ridiculous than the title A Big Bold Beautiful Journey may be the fact that the title is said out loud in... Read More

‘Normal’ Review: Bob Odenkirk is a Nobody Sheriff Pushed Too Far in Ben Wheatley’s Sisyphean, Odyssean Modern Western [B-] TIFF

Nick Ruhrkraut September 16, 2025

No city is too small to hide a secret too large. The latest rendition of this popular trope takes a jab at small town America... Read More

‘Motor City’ Review: The Best Possible Case for a Dialogue-Free Action Flick [B] TIFF

Brandon Lewis September 15, 2025

Do movies need dialogue? It’s not a silly question. After all, film is a visual medium. And the visual existed quite a while before synchronized... Read More

AwardsWatch Podcast Ep. 307 – Oscar Predictions in a post-Venice/Telluride/Toronto World and ‘One Battle After Another’

Erik Anderson September 15, 2025

Living in a post-Venice/Telluride/Toronto world means it’s time get serious about our Oscar predictions and that’s just what we’re doing this week. On episode 307... Read More

2026 Oscar Predictions: BEST PICTURE and BEST DIRECTOR (September)

Erik Anderson September 15, 2025

With the trifecta of major fall festivals behind us, the time for play is over. Wistful predictions are no more and there’s nothing to hide... Read More

77th Primetime Emmy Awards: ‘The Pitt,’ ‘The Studio,’ ‘Adolescence’ Take Top Wins

Erik Anderson September 14, 2025

Freshman shows made a big splash at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards where HBO Max’s The Pitt and AppleTV+’s The Studio took the top wins... Read More

‘Poetic License’ Review: Maude Apatow’s Delightful Directorial Debut is a New Coming-of-Age Classic [B+] TIFF

Sophia Ciminello September 14, 2025

Maude Apatow is no stranger to cross-generational coming-of-age stories. Growing up, she had minor roles in her father Judd Apatow’s comedic films (The 40-Year-Old Virgin,... Read More

‘Hamnet’ Wins 50th Toronto Film Festival Audience Award; ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ are Runners-Up

Erik Anderson September 14, 2025

Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet has won the TIFF People’s Choice Award of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, making her the first director to win the... Read More

‘Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts)’ Review: A Narratively Ambitious Genre-Bending Tale of Familial Trauma [B] TIFF

Matt St. Clair September 13, 2025

After their extraordinary sophomore feature Wildhood, Bretten Hannem crafts another demonstration of being in touch with one’s own Indigenous heritage. One that is even more... Read More

Director Watch Podcast Ep. 116 – ‘Tokyo Story’ (Yasujirō Ozu, 1953)

Ryan McQuade September 13, 2025

Welcome to Director Watch! On this AwardsWatch podcast, co-hosts Ryan McQuade and Jay Ledbetter attempt to breakdown, analyze, and ultimately, get inside the mind of... Read More

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