‘After the Hunt’ may be the most contemptuous movie of the year, and that’s precisely why it works. Luca Guadagnino confronts the audience’s conception of the truth and forces them to rethink how they perceive and view movies as he rejects dialogue to focus on the strongest images of his career.
Read More‘Anemone’ should only be watched by those craving another performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, because the film surrounding his incredible, controlled turn does not work at all.
Read MoreThanks to a painterly sense of image-making and captivating turns from Marion Cotillard and Clara Pacini, Lucile Hadžihalilović creates a unique atmosphere with ‘The Ice Tower’, blending the artifice of cinema with the trauma-inducing dread of a child’s fantasy.
Read MoreBenny Safdie breaks the aesthetics that he developed over the years with his brother Josh to craft a surprisingly patient, often discordant docudrama in ‘The Smashing Machine’, which sets his solo directorial career on exciting horizons.
Read MoreFor anyone who’s read even a smattering of smut in their lives, ‘Tell Me What You Want’ will offer precious few surprises.
Read MoreOn the surface level, ‘All of You’ is a film about how often technology distracts us from connection, but it also works as a lesson that true love is measured by the lengths we go to protect the relationships that matter most.
Read MoreAt long last, director Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio collaborate for ‘One Battle After Another’, an offbeat, thrilling, and often hilarious adventure that earns its keep in the talented director’s already stunning filmography.
Read MoreRomance stories are a dime a dozen, but Kogonada’s ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ dares to be different. However, despite the star power of its two considerably talented stars, this unconventional love story fails to leave a mark.
Read MoreThanks to its assured sense of style and magnifying performances from Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss, director Nia DaCosta crafts her best-ever film with a modern adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler and takes ‘Hedda’ in more daring directions than its original author ever envisioned.
Read MoreWhile Oliver Hermanus stuns with its patient visual language and soul-shocking musical sequences, ‘The History of Sound’s structure — and a miscast Paul Mescal — leaves a lot to be desired by the time the movie reaches its admittedly devastating epilogue.
Read MoreGuillermo del Toro and Toronto have a special relationship, and debuting the filmmaker’s passion project, ‘Frankenstein’, at Toronto’s festival just seems fitting.
Read MoreFor Channing Tatum fans, this is definitely not a film to miss – as always, he is a standout as his natural charisma brings a lot of life to ‘Roofman’ and makes the film more than worthwhile. Other audience members may not be convinced.
Read MoreWhile ‘The Lost Bus’ follows the 2018 Northern California Camp Fire, the prevalence and recency of what seems to be an evermore common occurrence of mass wildfires in California makes the timely release of this project all the more topical.
Read MoreÓliver Laxe crafts an unrelentingly cruel picture with the explosive ‘Sirāt’, questioning human morality at the center of his scorching, pulse-pounding thriller.
Read MoreBecause director Francis Lawrence is such a storied visual artist, ‘The Long Walk’ can mostly overcome its shoddily written screenplay as it continuously coddles the audience through a slow paced stroll of Stephen King’s first work.
Read MoreAlex Russell eviscerates our social media-obsessed era with the riveting and often terrifying ‘Lurker’, thanks to incredible turns from Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe.
Read MoreSpike Lee’s adapts Akira Kurosawa’s original with ’Highest 2 Lowest’ - undoubtedly the best remake of his career, anchored by another magnifying lead turn from Denzel Washington, who continues to prove why he’s the greatest to have ever done it.
Read MoreIn a summer movie landscape overcrowded with superhero blockbusters, ‘She Rides Shotgun’ is a refreshing change of pace, delivering a powerful story of unconditional love and lost innocence set against a thrilling backdrop.
Read MoreWhile it may not be as narratively and thematically strong as ‘Past Lives’, Celine Song still delivers a jaw-droppingly affecting meditation on love and its intrinsic connection to life with ‘Materialists’.
Read MoreWhile ‘On Swift Horses’ boasts compelling performances from its star-studded cast, the film’s lack of identity makes it difficult for audiences to latch onto its story and thematic underpinnings.
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