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Friday night is when the Toronto International Film Festival really explodes as more journalists, industry folk, and stars arrive to take in everything the event has to offer. In one part of town, upcoming theatrical releases...

From the moment Gina Prince-Bythewood became a director, her strength has always resided in her commitment to love stories. In her films, sumptuous twilight passions happen on a basketball court, they occur between generations, on the...

“Bros,” co-written and starring Billy Eichner, has been touted as the first mainstream Hollywood studio-backed rom-com to feature gay men as the leads. Directed by Nicholas Stoller and produced by Judd Apatow, the film consciously evokes...

The programmers at the first close-to-full TIFF since 2019 decided to open their event this year with a pair of tearjerkers, films that would likely move even the most cynical moviegoers. It’s interesting that this year’s...

2022 was my second year back at the Venice Film Festival, after a brief—well, year-long—pause in 2020, when the Festival went on under severely restricted circumstances, one of which had the effect of shutting out U.S....

One of this year’s most disturbing and provocative horror films might make you think twice about traveling abroad.  In Christian Tafdrup’s “Speak No Evil,” a Danish couple vacation in Tuscany with their young daughter, meeting a...

Park Chan-wook doesn’t make films that feel as traditional as the first hour of “Decision to Leave.” Anyone who knows that this is a movie from the director of “Oldboy” and “The Handmaiden” will be looking...

Filled with as many chase scenes as tacky gowns, creator Oliver Lyttleton’s Hulu series “Wedding Season” cleverly combines the rush of Hitchcockian “wrong man” yarns with a send-up of the Wedding Industrial Complex. It’s an unlikely...

Late in Brett Morgen’s riveting “Moonage Daydream,” David Bowie speaks of his belief that people are constantly taking fragments of the life around them to create their own existence—art, politics, family, etc. This fragmentation clearly influenced...

Sundance Institute CEO Joana Vicente announced this week that Eugene Hernandez will join the nonprofit Institute as the next Director of the Sundance Film Festival and head of public programming. Hernandez, a leader in the film...