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“Residue” is a very apt title for the debut feature of writer/director, Merawi Gerima. We don’t see the title until the film ends, but I believe the first time we hear it, it’s spoken by Lavonne...

I’ll never forget leaving the screening of “Green Book” at TIFF 2018 and a friend and colleague asked me what I thought, and I said, “Grandmas are going to love it.” Yes, that’s incredibly reductive of...

Despite this year’s smaller lineup in the Toronto International Film Festival, I’m still racing to catch one more movie before I’m out of time. Luckily, the ones I’ve seen have been good-to-great, some harder to watch...

During tonight’s televised presentation of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival’s Tribute Awards, Chloé Zhao, the acclaimed filmmaker of this year’s Venice prize-winner “Nomadland” and 2017’s Cannes prize-winner, “The Rider,” will become the latest recipient of the TIFF Ebert Director Award....

As far back as he could remember, Glenn Kenny knew enough about “Goodfellas” to fill a book. He finally got his chance with Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas: a densely researched, compulsively readable volume about Martin Scorsese’s...

A frustrating stretch of my virtual TIFF experience continued on Monday with a trio of movies with elements that work balanced out by frustrating flaws. This year’s TIFF feels like an odd feast-or-famine dynamic for me...

We are honored to present an excerpt from Glenn Kenny’s Made Men: The Story of Goodfellas, available in stores and online today, September 15th. Get your copy here. The virtual book launch featuring a live conversation...

Despite the undeniable oddity of covering a film festival remotely, TIFF 2020 has been relatively strong, premiering at least three films I think are truly great (“Nomadland,” “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” and “Wolfwalkers”) and a handful of...

Throughout his career on the Windy City stage, actor Kevin Pollack has always had a penchant for bringing down the house. From his channeling of Joe Cocker and his crowd-pleasing Blooze Brothers act to his poignant...

It’s ironic that one of the most dramatically potent moments in “Ratched,” the Ryan Murphy-produced attempt at an origin story for Nurse Mildred Ratched from “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” is one of its subtlest moments....