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Toronto Film Festival: “Nuns vs. The Vatican” — Courage, Cover-Ups, and Calls for Accountability

October 10, 2025
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“Nuns vs. The Vatican” prepares its audience for an ongoing story that is expanding each time one more victim agrees to talk publicly. Do not doubt that there will be a sequel.

Film Review: “Tron: Ares” — It Might Have Been a Contender

October 9, 2025
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 Tron: Ares  hurries from one spectacular concept and one spectacular set piece to another. But it doesn’t take the time to let any of those remarkable things sink in.

Film Review: Dispatch #3 — From the New York Film Festival, Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother”

October 9, 2025
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“Father Mother Sister Brother” invites you into a space of present-ness where you need to slow down and re-set your metabolism. It invites you to tune out all the noise and sit with the silences between people. A daring ask in a digital world where everyone’s glued to their screens the better to pick up the noise.

Film Festival Reviews: New York Film Festival’s 2025 “Revivals”

October 2, 2025
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Because NYFF’s “Revivals” supplement showcases new restorations, the expectation is that these movies, including art films from around the world, should become more widely available down the road.

Film Review: Dispatch From the New York Festival — “After the Hunt”

October 2, 2025
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“After the Hunt” churns up issues that feel several years behind the curve (hello 2007 and Harvey Weinstein).

Film Review: Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” Grapples with Pain, Power, and Self-Worth

October 2, 2025
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This is far from a conventional sports drama: it is a study of a man’s struggle for sense of personal worth and relevance

Toronto International Film Festival – Putin’s Media Fixer, Ukraine “Future” Doldrums and a Korean Hijack Farce

September 27, 2025
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A trio of political films at TIFF — ranging from tragedy to farce.

Film Festival Review: Dispatch From the New York Film Festival, 2025

September 26, 2025
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It’s hard to imagine that Hollywood suits would get behind a movie focused on a corrupt political regime, even one that’s now history.

Film Review: “One Battle After Another” — One Car Chase After Another

September 26, 2025
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Director P.T. Anderson’s latest puts up a fight, but it is for a lost cause.

Film Review: A Portrait of Fakir Musafar — The Search for Corporeal Transcendence

September 25, 2025
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“A Body To Live In” is not trying to be a conventional biopic — this is an atmospheric reminiscence of an underground movement.

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