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TIFF Review: Reptile Can’t Shed its Made-for-Streaming Look and Feel

For a first feature, Grant Singer could certainly do worse than Reptile. The question remains whether Netflix is capable of allowing anything better than routi...

TIFF Review: Not a Word Captures an Intense Search for Reconciliation

We can tell something is amiss the moment Nina (Maren Eggert) smiles and reminds her son Lars (Jona Levin Nicolai) that they only have “ten days left.” The way...

TIFF Review: The Holdovers is a Heavily Nostalgic, Likable Return for Alexander Payne

In the midst of a festival setting, catching up with all the best of world cinema and the contemporary avant-garde, you basically hope––sometimes even luckily ...

TIFF Review: Next Goal Wins Checks the Boxes of a Feel-Good Underdog Story

Taika Waititi had two goals when approaching Next Goal Wins: one was to make sure people who looked like him found their way onto mainstream screens; two was m...

TIFF Review: Dear Jassi Finds Tarsem Singh Returning with a Tragic Romance of Palpable Chemistry

The quasi-narrator who bookends Tarsem Singh's return to the big screen with the India-set Dear Jassi doesn't quite know where to start his ripped-from-the-hea...

TIFF Review: Yellow Bus Follows a Mother’s Investigative Journey to Find the Truth After Tragedy

Ananda (Tannishtha Chatterjee) says it all towards the end of Wendy Bednarz’s feature debut Yellow Bus: “There were so many chances to save her life.” That’s t...

TIFF Review: Kill is a No-Holds-Barred Action Extravaganza

Amrit (Lakshya) admits near the beginning of Nikhil Nagesh Bhat's no-holds-barred action extravaganza Kill that the only reason Fani (Raghav Juyal) and his ext...

TIFF Review: Flipside is a Moving, Funny Look at Regret and Nostalgia

There is no surprise twist in Chris Wilcha’s Flipside, a documentary making its world premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. This is not a t...

TIFF Review: Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt is a Stale Western

I remember hearing Viggo Mortensen on an episode of Here’s The Thing with Alec Baldwin where he came off as the rare combination of pretentious but likable. A ...

TIFF Review: Arthur&Diana is a Siblings Adventure Conveyed With the Feel of a Home Movie

Patrick (Benjamin Schwinn) shoves two arms full of snacks in the open window of an old Renault that definitely won’t be passing inspection (if it even arrives ...

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Trailers

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Reviews

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Podcasts

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