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'Presence' Is an Unexpected Fake-Out
Directed by Steven Soderbergh
PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2025
More often than not, Steven Soderbergh's career is spoken of as this kind of Soderbergh movie or that kind of Soderbergh movie. His...
'Nightbitch' Has Both Bark and Bite
Directed by Marielle Heller
PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2025
Of all the human experiences, motherhood is a particularly visceral. There's childbirth, of course, but then there are the the struggles...
'The Last Showgirl' Ushers In the Pamassaince
Directed by Gia Coppola
PUBLISHED Jan 15, 2025
The Pamaissance is here. After 2022's 'Pam & Tommy' reappraised Pamela Anderson as a sympathetic hero, the 2023 doc 'Pamela, a love story'...
'Young Werther' Puts a Fresh Toronto Twist on a Classic
Directed by José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço
PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2025
Based on the 1774 novel 'The Sorrows of Young Werther' by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'Young Werther' follows the time-honoured tradition of...
'Emilia Pérez' Wows with Fresh, Vibrant Performances
Directed by Jacques Audiard
PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2024
Musical crime comedy 'Emilia Pérez' began to make waves after the film won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and its female...
Bruce Springsteen's 'Road Diary' Introduces the Concept of Concerts
Directed by Thom Zimny
PUBLISHED Oct 23, 2024
Before the screening of Bruce Springsteen's 'Road Diary' documentary, a TIFF programmer came out to introduce the film and made an off-hand...
A Budding Cinematic Talent Sprouts in 'Seeds'
Directed by Kaniehtiio Horn
PUBLISHED Oct 22, 2024
Many of us learned about colonialism in school, but 'Seeds' reminds viewers that Canadian colonialism isn't simply a thing of the past...
'Conclave' Takes a Modern Look at a Middle Age Practice
Directed by Edward Berger
PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2024
The idea of the papal conclave began in the late 1200s following Pope Gregory X's decree in an attempt to shield the process of selecting a...