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Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Chibuike Marvelous Egbo and Godwin Egbo in My Father’s Shadow. Courtesy of Fatherland Productions A powerful work of memory and political fragility, Akinola Davies Jr.’s My…
Read more Screening at TIFF: Akinola Davies Jr.’s ‘My Father’s Shadow’If there was any lingering doubt regarding Bob Odenkirk‘s late-career reinvention as a legit everyman action star, Normal handily seals the deal. Having proved himself up to the…
Read more ‘Normal’ Review: Bob Odenkirk Fires on All Cylinders in Ben Wheatley’s Jaw-Droppingly Excessive Blast of a Crime CaperIn introducing his new comedy just ahead of its TIFF world premiere, director Bobby Farrelly noted that Dumb and Dumber, the 1994 release that introduced him and brother…
Read more ‘Driver’s Ed’ Review: Sam Nivola Stars in Bobby Farrelly’s Genial but Uninspired Road Trip ComedyTaking the notion of skeletons in the family closet quite literally, Alex Winter‘s Adulthood sets out to expose something sinister lurking just beneath suburbia’s fake wood-paneled veneer of…
Read more ‘Adulthood’ Review: Alex Winter’s Dark Family Satire Is Not Exactly an Excellent AdventureBack in the early 2000s, a pair of blue-eyed Scottish lads with dreams of becoming the next Eminem — but dismissed as sounding like “the rapping Proclaimers” —…
Read more ‘California Schemin” Review: James McAvoy’s Assured Directorial Debut Makes for an Engaging if Familiar Underdog StoryA feature documentary about Paul Shaffer, best known David Letterman’s longtime sidekick and Late Show bandleader, is in the works. The life rights to the story of the…
Read more Paul Shaffer to Get Feature Doc Treatment (Exclusive)Photo: Leah Gallo/A24 Eternity is an old-school crowd-pleaser. Directed by David Freyne, it’s big and brightly lit, the type of movie you watch during the holidays despite it…
Read more Eternity Should Be SadderThe Last Viking, the latest collaboration between Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen and his longtime muses Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, is a wild, darkly comic fable…
Read more Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas Talk Beatles, Abba and Brotherhood in Anders Thomas Jensen’s ‘The Last Viking’In Poetic License, Hoffman is like a Gen-Z Vince Vaughn, bullshitting sophistication at a mile a minute, but also too sensitive for this world. Photo: Toronto International Film…
Read more You Can’t Look Away From Cooper Hoffman“It was a very emotional screening for us,” she continued. “It’s as if the film is suddenly born and it’s not yours anymore. It doesn’t belong to you…
Read more Vanity Fair and Four Seasons Celebrate TIFF’s 50th AnniversaryAs a priest clinging to faith, O’Connor is silly, sincere, and steals the new Knives Out movie from Benoit Blanc. Photo: Netflix Like any good mystery series, the…
Read more Josh O’Connor Takes Wake Up Dead Man to ChurchThe agitated, ominous vibration of giant power lines and quaking transmission towers feels like a Greek chorus throughout Paul Greengrass’s intense new wildfire thriller, The Lost Bus. Over…
Read more The Lost Bus Is an Instant Disaster-Movie ClassicThe opening credits of the heist thriller Fuze flicker and shake like action-movie credits used to do back in the good old Tony Scott days. That’s an early…
Read more ‘Fuze’ Review: Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Theo James Headline David Mackenzie’s Savvy, Hunk-Filled Heist ThrillerJohn Candy is having a bit of a moment. While it has been more than three decades since the beloved Canadian comic actor died tragically too soon, at…
Read more ‘John Candy: I Like Me’ Review: Colin Hanks’ Doc Portrait Pays Poignant Tribute to a Comic Icon’s Life and LegacyThe mostly nude ‘Eden’ character Friedrich Ritter (played by the neurotic hilt by Jude Law) and his companion-bedmate (Vanessa Kirby), who eventually loses her mind. Jasin Boland After…
Read more Jude Law Contributes Nothing But Full-Frontal Nudity in ‘Eden’Colin Farrell finds himself in a high-stakes state of mind in the teaser trailer for Netflix‘s Ballad of a Small Player. Netflix releases Edward Berger‘s feature in select…
Read more Colin Farrell Risks It All in Wild Trailer for Edward Berger’s Netflix Movie ‘Ballad of a Small Player’EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Classics is closing a deal to acquire On Swift Horses, the Daniel Minahan-directed drama that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month as…
Read more Sony Pictures Classics Lands TIFF Title ‘On Swift Horses;’ Daisy Edgar Jones, Jacob Elordi StarJennifer Lopez has clearly gotten a kick out of her recent Netflix films, as the performer is preparing to return to the streamer for her next feature. Lopez…
Read more Jennifer Lopez, Brett Goldstein to Star in Netflix Rom-Com ‘Office Romance’The Toronto International Film Festival — which I have been attending since 2007, and from which I just returned — has long been an important launching pad for Oscar…
Read more Toronto Awards Takeaways: Feinberg on an Off-Year for the FestWhen Maeve (Charlotte MacInnes) gets suspended from school after a political demonstration backfires, her mother (Susan Prior), who also happens to be the institution’s principal, sends the Sydney…
Read more ‘The Deb’ Review: Rebel Wilson’s Directorial Debut Is a Campy, Mixed-Bag Teen Musical
