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.
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This Stephen King adaptation is a gripping, grueling experience, anchored by performances from Cooper Hoffman and David Jonsson.
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In Joyce Chopra’s adaptation of a Joyce Carol Oates short story, growing up is hard to do — especially when there’s a predator knocking on your door.
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Our mini-reviews of “Finding Lucinda,” “Hidden Face,” “Live a Little,” and more new under-the-radar on-demand offerings.
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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.
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Wim Wenders bounced back from an early disaster by crafting one of his finest films — poignant, keenly observant, and unfailingly true.
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Reporting from the 2025 Venice Film Festival, our correspondent found many selections engaging meaningfully with reality – both the painful present and the imagined past.
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The leading man in this rom-com deserves to be dumped.
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Twenty years ago, before the Weinstein brothers left Miramax to start the Weinstein Company, they released a shoulda-been prestige project that barely made a ripple.
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In honor of his 100th birthday on September 8th, we revisit the late-career passion project that gave Peter Sellers one of his best roles
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There’s not an anniversary, or a news peg, or a new streaming or disc release. We just figure you probably haven’t seen this 1979 disco roller musical — and here’s why you should.
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To honor the recently-departed Terence Stamp, we look back at one of his best (and most unsung) turns: as the Zen center of Stephen Frears’s 1984 crime drama.
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