Summer of 85 is a film about the death of a young gay man, and yet it doesn't come close to perpetuating stereotypes or falling into tropes....

"Sometimes I have no idea who I am." No other sentence encapsulates the teenage experience quite like that one. In Sweetheart, April (a.k.a....

Most of us can agree that one of the things we need most right now is a vacation. Wining and dining in the French countryside seems like the...

For most, the colour yellow signifies happiness, warmth and optimism. But in Katie Found's feature debut, My First Summer, the colour yellow...

Born in South Africa under apartheid, director Oliver Hermanus never gave much thought to the hardships of white South Africans. In his mind...

The COVID-era movie feels like its own genre at this point. These are films set in lockdown, whose plots deal with the pandemic, shot in one...

Once upon a time in the west of Ireland, two men dawning pig and panda masks burst into a church to rob shotgun-wielding priests of their dr...

In Land, Robin Wright foreshadows the acting masterclass that's to come from its very first scene. In the first glimpse of her character, Ed...

What's instantly captivating about Canadian filmmaker Philippe Falardeau's My Salinger Year is its relatability. In one of the film's openin...

"Look at you," begins a narration by Rosamund Pike at the opening of I Care a Lot. She tells us we're not good people because there's no suc...

The year 1984 had many victories: the first solo transatlantic flight, the first untethered spacewalk, the identification of the AIDS virus,...

Ammonite is a type of coiled fossil, small in the centre and spiralling outward. These remains of extinct marine life symbolize the beginnin...

French director Alice Winocour's Proxima opens with a conversation between a mother and a daughter. For a film that I like to refer to as "E...

The Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini allegedly once said that he dreamed the devil had appeared to him sitting on the end of his bed. The d...

Martin Provost's How to Be a Good Wife is a film that embodies "Vive la révolution!" It's not an unfamiliar premise in its critiques gender...

Before sitting down to watch Eternal Beauty, it felt like I hadn't seen Sally Hawkins since her Oscar-nominated turn in The Shape of Water....

The Toronto International Film Festival normally takes over the city with Hollywood premieres, celebrity sightings and massive crowds of fil...

It's the 1970s. An elderly woman sits at her desk, clacking away on her typewriter. She's a reclusive writer, like many in history, and this...

In 1932, at the age of 24, actress Peg Entwistle climbed a workman's ladder to the top of the Hollywood sign and jumped to her death. This t...

Lesbian narratives have had a strong few years – you could even say a strong decade. While they still pale in comparison to films that focus...