In Guatemalan writer/director Jayro Bustamante’s feature debut, Ixcanul (2016), the filmmaker shone a light on how an indigenous community around the […]
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The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) felt unusually heavy with films concerning religion and its followers. Of the more than […]
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“A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens,” wrote Dostoyevsky, “but by how it treats its […]
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For someone as obsessively Type A as me, the lead-up to a film festival as compact and curated as Fantasia can […]
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Is there such a thing as too much genre cinema? If so, then it would likely occur at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival, […]
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The Ringer declared last summer that the moment of horror is now here: “Millennial” is no longer a synonym for “young […]
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In 2012, the first Avengers movie served as the closing night film for the Tribeca Film Festival. This year, the latest […]
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If you’ve heard anything about Xavier Legrand’s Custody — admittedly, it’s possible you haven’t — it’s likely writer/director Xavier Legrand’s elevator pitch […]
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“Whiteness can incinerate a family with the heat equal to a bomb,” intones narrator Travis Wilkerson, the filmmaker and subject of […]
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I skipped out on the big political event of the Toronto International Film Festival, the premiere of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9, […]
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“Addiction is our new default,” quips Juliette Binoche’s Selena in Non-Fiction, a special presentation at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. […]
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“She really is so hard on herself,” remarks a relative of the titular character in Kent Jones’ Diane. A gaggle of […]
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