If you had to summarize the biggest trend at the Toronto Film Festival this year – apart from the effects of both writers and actors being on strike – it might be that 2023 was the year many actors made the jump to directing.
Our next set of reviews from TIFF; inclusive of films by Chris Pine, Finn Wolfhard, Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Hirokazu Kore-eda
Our latest set of reviews from TIFF include new films from Jonathan Glazer, Anna Kendrick, Alexander Payne, and Atom Egoyan
In our first set of reviews from this years Toronto International Film Festival, we look at the latest from Hayao Miyazaki, Radu Jude, Viggo Mortensen, and the directorial debut of Kristen Scott Thomas
Christopher Nolan has made some of my favorite movies of all time. But every filmmaker has weaknesses, and over the years Nolan’s have crystallized.
The new espionage spectacle from Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie largely brings the thrills you’re looking for, but trouble is on the horizon
Despite the chaos surrounding its production, The Flash is, miraculously, a pretty fun adventure that’s worth seeing
Past Lives, a feature debut for writer/director Celine Song, opens with a simple premise. The camera focuses on a trio, a woman sitting in the middle of two men. Off-camera, voices try to puzzle out their connections: is this a couple and a friend? Siblings and a couple? Are any of the three romantically entangled at all? It’s a hard one, they muse.
While it gets a little unwieldy in its backend, Across the Spider-Verse is the rare resonant superhero movie and is a must-see
Since hearing director Ari Aster describe his film Beau is Afraid as a “Jewish Lord of the Rings but he’s just going to his mom’s house,” my curiosity has been high.
Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut flirts with greatness, but pulls its punches one too many times.
The latest from the once heralded filmmaker is his most effective film since The Village
Chances are, you already know about M3GAN.
Another critics group, another big prize for EEAO
This year’s big winners include Eveything Everywhere All at Once, RRR, Top Gun: Maverick, and Banshees of Inisherin.
