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I AM PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT RENOWNED FILM DIRECTOR WIM WENDERS will be honored at our annual Ebert Tribute Luncheon at the wonderful Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, September 10th. I will be joining TIFF’s Artistic Director,...

Usually there is nothing wrong with indulgent escapism as a cinematic commodity. But it’s probably more than a little tone deaf right now to trot out to see a cream-puffy Hollywood rom-com fantasy involving coddled well-off...

Clowns are creepy no matter what. We can all agree on that, right? But Pennywise, the dancing clown who tracks down and torments the children of small-town Maine in “It,” is deeply unsettling. At least, he...

“I took the gondola with the director of ‘The Revenant,’ and he told me his favorite film of Telluride is ‘The Rider.'” If you want to get the real scoop at film festivals, pay attention to...

It’s hard to even know where to start when it comes to previewing or planning to cover a festival as big as Toronto. Over the span of about 10 days, dozens of films will have their...

Tucked away in the hills of Tuscany, the small village of Monticchello puts on an original play every year, starring its residents, working from material inspired by their current anxieties and passions. They’ve been doing this...

I’m not much for allegory, but when the allegory comes in a cinematic package as vibrant, momentum-charged, virtuosic, and just-plain-messed-up as Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!” does, I can roll with it, as they say. More than roll...

One of my favorite features of the Venice Film Festival is its Classics section, which this year featured 19 restored films, four of which I saw. Four and a half, actually, I guess…I’m gutted about having...

What if everyone you owed money to suddenly appeared in person as you strolled through Central Park? That’s what happens to Norman (Kieran Culkin), a young New Yorker who just wants to stop arguing with his...

When someone inevitably writes a book on the ‘10s era of “Peak TV,” I suspect that Jane Campion’s “Top of the Lake” will get a whole chapter. Before “The Knick” and “Twin Peaks: The Return,” it...