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'The Fabelmans' review: Spielberg's latest is the best movie of the year
September 11, 2022 | 8:50amIt’s gripping, visually mesmeric, boasts an exceptional, grounded script by Tony Kushner and is acted to the hilt. A no-holds-barred Michelle Williams skyrockets to the front of the Oscar race...
'The Woman King' review: Viola Davis kills in African war epic
September 10, 2022 | 12:30pmDuring the Viola Davis-led movie, which premiered Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival, we are whisked back to the glory days of the 1980s and ‘90s when big budgets,...
'On the Come Up' TIFF review: Rap gets resonant and risky in YA movie
September 9, 2022 | 3:09pmThe film focuses on a 16-year-old aspiring rapper and poses potent questions about music and art.
'Weird: The Al Yankovic Story' review: The craziest biopic ever made
September 9, 2022 | 11:39amFinding a stranger, more deranged, even a just-as-peculiar biopic would be a tall order.
Toronto Film Festival 2022 red carpet: See the best celebrity looks
September 9, 2022 | 11:35amSee what stars are wearing on the red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival 2022, which runs from September 8-18.
Big movies were back at the 2021 Toronto Film Fest, but not big crowds
September 16, 2021 | 3:39pmFew Americans made the trek to Toronto this year, preferring more free-wheeling Venice. Still, many movies were sensational.
Kristen Stewart is hauntingly brilliant as Princess Diana in 'Spencer'
September 15, 2021 | 10:24pmKristen Stewart is haunting, playful and blisteringly human as Di at the end of her rope.
What Alanis Morissette actually reveals in shocking doc she disowned
September 15, 2021 | 3:06pmThe singer said she is disappointed in the new documentary about her life, in which she reveals being sexually taken advantage of by unnamed figures in the music industry as...
Jessica Chastain could win her first Oscar for 'Eyes of Tammy Faye'
September 14, 2021 | 10:04pmChastain’s performance, which should net her an Oscar nomination, is kind but warped, ambitious but subservient, self-loving and self-loathing. She's a marvel.
'The Starling,' with Melissa McCarthy, is one of the year's worst movies
September 13, 2021 | 7:02pm“The Starling” joins Melissa McCarthy’s dud pile, which is Mount Everest next to her modest mound of critical hits.
'The Humans,' a storm of a Broadway play, is a drizzle of a movie
September 13, 2021 | 5:33pm"The Humans," mistakenly directed by the writer rather than an established filmmaker, is much more one-note and slight than the glorious show we saw on Broadway.
Campy horror film 'Last Night in Soho' gives us sex and the sixties
September 13, 2021 | 4:56pmIt's the best high-camp scary flick since “Black Swan.” Director Edgar Wright’s latest crazy horror-comedy, “Last Night in Soho,” is his most sophisticated film yet.
'Dune' review: Sci-fi spectacle will blow your mind
September 11, 2021 | 11:37pmDirector Denis Villeneuve’s galvanizing new film, which had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday night, is 100-percent worthy to stand next to the great...
Netflix pinches pennies with cheap cop thriller 'The Guilty'
September 11, 2021 | 2:06pmStarring Jake Gyllenhaal and directed by Antoine Fuqua of “Training Day," "The Guilty" is basically a loud old radio play.
'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain' teaches us why we don't hate cats
September 11, 2021 | 11:55amArtist Louis Wain is played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the whimsical, wonderful dramedy “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Emmy nominee Josh O'Connor proves he's a movie star in 'Mothering Sunday'
September 10, 2021 | 1:15pmThe 2021 Emmy nominee has advanced into a new stage of stardom with "Mothering Sunday." He plays an irresistible, confident romantic lead instead of sniveling, down-in-the-dumps Charles. He’s billed higher...
Why 'Dear Evan Hansen' is much better than its terrible movie trailer
September 10, 2021 | 10:49amDuring the world premiere of the moving movie “Dear Evan Hansen” at the Toronto International Film Festival Thursday night, a nagging question kept coming up: Should this still be a...
Watching good Toronto Film Fest movies from home sucked
September 17, 2020 | 1:39pmI never want to sit through a film fest in my bedroom again.
TIFF to proceed this fall with socially-distant screenings, drive-in shows
June 24, 2020 | 9:08pmHalle Berry's directorial debut, "Bruised," will be making its debut.
Director Andrew Patterson's Festival Favorite 'The Vast Of Night' Will Really Razz Your Berries
May 28, 2020 | 8:00amThe movie sits somewhere between the Twilight Zone and Orson Welles' infamous "War Of The Worlds" radio broadcast.