If Raoul Peck’s previous two films––the sweeping essay documentary I Am Not Your Negro and the painterly authorial portrait The Young Karl Marx––set aims to na...
They say, "Write what you know." So Kristin Scott Thomas does with her directorial debut North Star. Co-written by John Micklethwait, the film centers on three...
I was thinking about my motherI was thinking about what’s mineI was living my life like a HollywoodBut I was dying, dying on the vine
–– John Cale
It was...
Pete Gleeson’s 2016 documentary Hotel Coolgardie came and went on the festival circuit, but it made a strong impression on those who caught it. Following two y...
The second part of this year’s Venice Film Festival shines with at least two firsts: Ava DuVernay is the first African-American female director competing for t...
Shrouded in a veil of secrecy up until its Japanese release this past July, Hayao Miyazaki's first feature in a decade and potentially the 82-year-old director...
With 42 short films across six programmes representing 23 countries, this year’s Short Cuts lineup at the Toronto International Film Festival continues its tra...
Where to begin with Bertrand Bonello’s wonderful The Beast? It’s been so gratifying to see the initial reaction to the French filmmaker’s tenth feature, after ...
After highlighting 40 titles confirmed to hit theaters this fall, we now turn our attention to the festival-bound films either without distribution or a c...
Bringing two projects to Toronto International Film Festival (and likely would've been a trio if a certain film didn't get delayed), Colman Domingo is poised f...
