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Debut writer/director Amman Abbasi’s tender “Dayveon” finds him tracing the big footsteps of his executive producer, David Gordon Green. Like Green’s own debut “George Washington” before it, this project seeks to find a universal story within...

The Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival can be notoriously hit and miss. For every “Raw” or “It Follows,” there a half-dozen films that most people outside of TIFF will never see. It...

A strong debut for Israeli writer/director Limor Shmila, “Montana” is not the usual type of story of a person coming back home after a loss. In this case, a woman named Efi (Noa Biron) returns to...

Going into “Battle of the Sexes,” one might expect an equally-balanced look at the lives of self-proclaimed chauvinist Bobby Riggs and tennis superstar Billie Jean King. This is not that movie. And it shouldn’t be really....

“Breathe,” Andy Serkis’ directorial debut, is an undeniably well-intentioned film. Serkis directs this true story of the parents of one of his best friends and producing partners, Jonathan Cavendish, and he does so with sensitivity and...

The following table of contents features our coverage of the 2017 Telluride Film Festival, written by Meredith Brody and Tomris Laffly.MEREDITH BRODY A Box of Chocolates: Preview of the 2017 Telluride Film Festival The Greatest Show...

Masaharu Fukuyama is one of the most popular singers in Japanese history, and he’s parlayed his fame into a remarkable, growing film career, appearing at this year’s TIFF with two of cinema’s most important voices, John...

Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” is one of the most audacious and flat-out bizarre movies that a major studio has released in years. The director has never shied away from controversial filmmaking, but this deep dive into metaphorical...

Sometimes thematic commonality just arises during a festival experience. When I planned to include these two films in a dispatch from Toronto, I honestly didn’t even realize the narrative DNA they would share. They’re both films...

It was probably inevitable that the tremendously successful French film “The Intouchables,” about a wealthy quadriplegic and his black caretaker recently released from prison, would find its way to Hollywood. The contrived premise of the film,...