Thanks 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 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 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.
Read MoreThanks to a magnifying lead turn from Susan Chardy, Rungano Nyoni ensures you will not forget ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’, as one of the year’s most important movies.
Read MoreWalter Salles attempts to denounce Brazil’s military dictatorship in his family drama ‘I’m Still Here’ but accomplishes very little despite a committed performance by Fernanda Torres.
Read MoreWhile stars Nicole Kidman and Antonio Banderas give their all in ‘Babygirl’, the film is hindered by a severe lack of chemistry with its lead star and a profoundly miscast Harris Dickinson.
Read MoreWilliam Goldenberg energetically depicts Anthony Robles' inspiring story in ‘Unstoppable’, a sports drama anchored by compelling turns from Jharrel Jerome, Don Cheadle, and Jennifer Lopez.
Read MoreDespite an assured visual style, Steve McQueen’s latest fiction film, ‘Blitz’, is an often muddled and dull drama that doesn’t know what it wants to say about the central characters it focuses on.
Read MoreClint Eastwood gives aspiring filmmakers a true lesson in shot-reverse-shot with ‘Juror #2’, a gripping procedural thriller on the fallacies of our legal system(s).
Read MoreAndrea Arnold turns her social realist lens into a magical one with ‘Bird’ and fails at drawing any meaningful arcs on its central characters despite a constantly assured stylistic touch.
Read MoreMohammad Rasoulof confronts and rejects state propaganda in his daring and courageous The Seed of the Sacred Fig and makes the most critical piece of political media of the decade so
Read MoreWhile ‘Goodrich’ is nothing completely unique, it flourishes due to the charisma and gravitas of Michael Keaton, resulting in a tried-and-true kind of family drama, amplified by scattered moments of genuine resonance along the way.
Read MoreSebastian Stan continues to do great work in the independent sphere with an often engrossing, though underwhelming, character study in Aaron Schimberg’s ‘A Different Man’.
Read MoreNovelist Stephen King and director Mike Flanagan are both maestros of horror, but ‘The Life of Chuck’ shows the tremendous sensitivity both men have towards life, love and humanity. [TIFF 2024]
Read MoreWhile 'His Three Daughters' contains strong performances from its trio of lead actresses, writer/director Azazel Jacobs puts them in cyclical situations that never fully forms an emotional center with the event they’re going through.
Read MoreNahéma Ricci gives another towering lead performance in Annick Blanc’s ‘Hunting Daze’, an often surreal thriller that, while terrifically intriguing, loses itself in its second half.
Read MoreSean Wang’s feature directorial debut, 'Dìdi' (弟弟), is a poignant, often painful coming-of-age tale that anyone can relate to, with a towering lead turn from Izaac Wang.
Read MoreLily Gladstone continues to prove why they’re one of the best actors working today in ‘Fancy Dance’, a deeply moving and compassionate character drama.
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