‘Việt and Nam’ Review: Trương Minh Quý’s Haunting and Melancholic Look at a Country Struggling with its Past | TIFF
Life can be a series of question marks that are never resolved. We may forever wrestle with the possibilities and scenarios, but we are never... Read More
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‘Heretic’ Review: Hugh Grant is a Creep and a Weirdo in Deviously Devilish Debate About Religion | TIFF
Sister Barnes and Sister Paxton are doing missionary work for the Mormon Church. Paxton (Chloe East from The Fabelmans) is a sweet, bubbly chatterbox, while... Read More
‘The Substance’ Review: Coralie Fargeat Feeds Us Moore Gore in Blood-Soaked Rumination on Female Body Image | TIFF
Women know body horror all too well. Before we can even really grasp what they mean, the standards embedded in us tell us our bodies... Read More
‘Without Blood’ Review: Angelina Jolie Directs Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir With Lots of Looks But Little Content | TIFF
Writer/director Angelina Jolie has shown a penchant for challenging films depicting war when she is behind the camera—think First They Killed My Father or Unbroken.... Read More
‘Daniela Forever’ Review: Henry Golding Elevates an Imaginative Sci-Fi Pic That Falls Short of its Full Potential | TIFF
When it comes to sci-fi films about an attempt for romantic connection, movies about machines and AI tend to be prevalent within that canon, from... Read More
‘Pedro Páramo’ Review: Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto’s Adaptation of the Classic Mexican Magical Realism Novel is Otherworldly | TIFF
Long before M. Night Shyamalan’s characters saw dead people, author Juan Rulfo wrote about a whole bunch of them roaming the streets of an abandoned... Read More
‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Daniel Minahan’s Unsexy Adaptation Rides On Svelte Torsos and Not Much Else | TIFF
While revisionist westerns aren’t exactly popular, they do important work in dispelling the myth of the Great American West. On Swift Horses, Daniel Minahan’s adaptation... Read More
‘To a Land Unknown’ Review: Mahdi Fleifel’s Unforgettable Feature Debut is a Rousing Reflection on Displacement | TIFF
In Mahdi Fleifel’s much-anticipated feature debut, following a number of widely acclaimed shorts, the refugee experience is depicted in ways very few films have succeeded... Read More
‘The Last Showgirl’ Review: Gia Coppola Gives Pamela Anderson the Role of a Lifetime in a Performance of Tenderness and Grace | TIFF
There is a scene towards the latter half of Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl that encapsulates the lonely, tender heart of the film. Shelley (Pamela... Read More
‘The Return’ Review: Uberto Pasolini Beautifully Reinterprets “The Odyssey” with the Reunion of Juliette Binoche and a Ripped Ralph Fiennes | TIFF
It’s quite a risk to take an epic poem and only adapt the non-mythical parts into a film. After all, this isn’t the nth take... Read More
‘Jay Kelly,’ ‘Hamnet,’ ‘Pluribus,’ ‘Task’ and More on AFI’s Top 10 Films and Television of 2025 Lists 
‘Frankenstein’ to Receive Visionary Honor from Palm Springs International Film Awards 
Robert Yeoman to be Honored with American Society of Cinematographers’ Lifetime Achievement Award 
National Board of Review: ‘One Battle After Another’ Tops in Film, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor; Netflix Lands Four in Top 10