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TIFF Review: Quentin Dupieux’s ‘Deerskin’ is Divorced Guy Energy: The Movie

Quentin Dupieux’s Deerskin can essentially be summarized as Divorced Guy Energy: The Movie. A ribbing of masculinity that alternates between bone-dry and morbid...

TIFF Review: ‘Crazy World,’ from Uganda’s Wakaliwood Collective, Shows What’s Missing in Hollywood Action Cinema

It's hard to discuss Crazy World without mentioning the experience of seeing it. As the final screening of TIFF’s Midnight Madness programme, the film was accom...

TIFF Review: ‘Weathering with You’ is an Exhilarating Tale of Friendship from ‘Your Name’ Director Makoto Shinkai

Teenagers get plenty of flack these days with derogatory labels thrust upon them by older generations refusing to truly look outside their window at how much th...

TIFF Review: ‘Dogs Don’t Wear Pants’ Shows Dominatrix-Mandated Therapy as a Path for Resolution

The thesis of the impeccably directed Dogs Don't Wear Pants is that you can teach a dog new tricks, especially if that dog has a threshold and an appetite for e...

TIFF Review: ‘Harriet’ is Beautiful But Burdened by Biopic Conventions

One of the most famous Americans who has ever lived, despite being born in the humblest circumstances imaginable; whose life was full of heroic actions with lif...

TIFF Review: ‘The Australian Dream’ Shows the Fight Against Racism On and Off the Field

The story of AFL superstar and Australian of the Year-recipient Adam Goodes should resonate for Americans who've been following the crusade of former NFL quarte...

TIFF Review: ‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ Captures the Outback Outlaws with a Punk Rock Mood

True History of the Kelly Gang opens with a title card stating that nothing in the film is actually true, a convenient choice for director Justin Kurzel as it l...

Alexander Payne to Direct Mads Mikkelsen in New Drama for Netflix

With films from Martin Scorsese, Alfonso Cuarón, Noah Baumbach, Steven Soderbergh, and even Orson Welles in their library, Netflix is set to release another...

TIFF Review: ‘Saturday Fiction’ is Bursting with Sumptuous Movie-Movie Atmosphere

A filmmaker perhaps too prolific for his own good, Lou Ye takes his latest spin ‘round the festival circuit with Saturday Fiction, a movie stuffed to bursting w...

TIFF Review: ‘Love Child’ is an Invaluable, Objective Look at Asylum Seekers

The year "2012" doesn't appear at the beginning of Eva Mulvad's documentary Love Child because it's an era-specific story. No well-known international news head...

News

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Trailers

New Trailer for 4K Restoration of Time of the Heathen Captures a World After the Atomic Bomb

Jia Zhangke and Bi Gan Voice a Coming-of-Age Tale In Exclusive Trailer Debut for Liu Jian’s Art College 1994

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Covers Classic Terrain In First Trailer for Serpent’s Path

Reviews

Challengers Review: Non-Stop Lurid Entertainment Rides the Charisma of Its Stars

Omen Review: An Assured Debut That Never Falters in Ambition or Surprise

The People’s Joker Review: Superhero-Skewering Satire is Miraculous in Multiple Ways

Features

NYC Weekend Watch: Love Streams, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Ozu & More

New to Streaming: Dune: Part Two, Hundreds of Beavers, Problemista, Immaculate & More

The Best Movies Now Playing in Theaters

Interviews

Frederick Elmes on John Cassavetes’ Infectious Confidence, Imitating Sven Nykvist, and Ang Lee’s Hulk

Becoming the Beast: George MacKay on Fighting for Bertrand Bonello’s Film, Learning French, and Modern Incel Culture

“I’m Not an Actor”: Léa Seydoux on Her Creative Self and False Public Perception

Podcasts

The B-Side – Robert Redford (with Blake Howard)

The Film Stage Show Ep. 534 – Monkey Man (with Jenny Nulf)

The B-Side – In Conversation with Larry Fessenden

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