Category: Film Fests

Our second report from the Toronto International Film Festival includes thoughts on “Bad Apples,” “The Christophers,” “Normal,” “Adulthood,” “Blue Heron,” “Lucky Lu,” “Orwell: 2 + 2 = 5,” “Blue Heron,” and more.

Our first report from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival includes mini-reviews of “Wake Up Dead Man,” “Dead Man’s Wire,” “Christy,” “No Other Choice,” “Hamlet,” and more.

Reporting from the 2025 Venice Film Festival, our correspondent found many selections engaging meaningfully with reality – both the painful present and the imagined past.

Our final report from this year’s Tribeca Festival includes mini-reviews of “Sham,” “Fior Di Latte,” “Raoul’s, A New York Story,” “Natchez,” and more.

Our first dispatch from this year’s Tribeca Festival includes mini-reviews of “Videoheaven,” “It’s Dorothy!” “Re-Creation,” “One Spoon of Chocolate,” and more.

The 78th edition of the French festival honored the past in more ways than one.

Contradictions and controversies were inescapable at this year’s Berlinale. Marshall Shaffer reports from the ground at a hotly contested festival where the action off-screen was just as noteworthy as anything on it.