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I am proud to announce that Chloé Zhao, the acclaimed filmmaker of 2017’s Cannes prize-winner, “The Rider,” will become this year’s recipient of the TIFF Ebert Director Award during a televised presentation of the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival’s Tribute...

The word “nice” has taken on more than just another term for “kind.” For some reason, it can be equated to a toothlessness, or safety; it’s dismissive as a retort too, like, “Oh, how was the Jason...

“She became obsessed with the idea that our world wasn’t real, that she had to wake up to get back to reality.” We’ve all felt a bit of displacement in 2020, the sense that the world...

There’s something so disheartening about a wasted premise. To see a film or series take a great idea and almost willfully turn it into something as generic as Netflix’s “Project Power” somehow hurts more than just...

In the Netflix action movie “Project Power,” the potential for chaos or creation is all in one pill. Take one of those shiny capsules, and you’ll be given super powers for five minutes, whether it involves fire,...

The egg that hatched in the original “Alien” spawned an entire subgenre of science fiction horror, about invasive extraterrestrial creatures that treat the human body as camouflage or meat. The latest entry is “Sputnik,” a Russian...

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”—Dr. Seuss I care a whole awful lot. And I’m hoping to make things better in ways big and small. In...

The eye-opening entertainment of “Boys State” concerns a microcosm of the American political system: put a bunch of political science buffs in the same summer camp, and let them create their own government for a week, including electing...

When the sky blackens, and the distant trembling of thunder overwhelms the white noise of cars, buses, and scuttling pedestrians, instinct tells us to seek refuge, to go home. But what if there’s no escape? Nowhere...

Kevin Tran’s “The Dark End of the Street” is a warm, modest film all around—its ambitions, filmmaking, and especially pacing. It seeks to have the stillness of a night in some random suburb (in this case,...