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“The whole world is watching!” This iconic chant from the protest movement of the ‘60s is featured multiple times in Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.” The timing of the film’s release as laws against...

First things first: this movie needed another half hour. There’s no other way to explain the peculiar absence with which it leaves you. More time would make this soufflé of a movie even richer. But, if you...

“Jake needs to see me as someone who sees him. He needs to be seen, and he needs to be seen with approval. Like that’s my purpose in all this, in life.” — The Young Woman...

Miranda July’s latest, fittingly, is hard to describe. Even for someone who has now seen it twice, its story is about so many things: it’s about family, con artists, parenting, and capitalism at the center of...

There’s very little that’s surprising in Alex Gibney’s compulsively watchable election hack documentary “Agents of Chaos,” and that’s a feature, not a bug. The sense of foreign meddling in American affairs doesn’t need to be all...

After Bubba Wallace, the only full-time African American driver in NASCAR, made history by persuading the auto-racing company to outlaw the display of the confederate flag, he makes history again by becoming the first driver for NBA...

After making two experimental shorts (1969’s “Stereo” and 1970’s “Crimes of the Future”), Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg decided back in the early ’70s to boost his profile with a more overtly commercial project. Like many filmmakers, both before and since,...

Most tributes are best expressed in words, but Michael Chapman’s magnificent contribution to the world was so visual that it feels like photos could get the job done better than anything I could possibly say. And...

It’s a nerve-racking experience getting to know the ins and outs of an online film festival. Learning how to access the movies, figuring out if the streams won’t break if you jostle your computer, seeing if...

There were 245 features last year at the Toronto International Film Festival. This year, officially, there were 50. As Cameron Bailey, the festival’s Artistic Director and co-head points out below, that’s the lowest number ever, even...