Film
Let’s see if Prayers for the Stolen is selected as Mexico’s Academy Award nominee. It’s a long shot, given that this is a film that tells so much of the truth.
For all its skin-tearing brutality, Titane is uncharacteristically tender underneath its heavy metal shell.
Told with just the right amount of empathy, Five Years North offers an illuminating, and much needed, look at immigration in America.
No Time to Die could only be a product of the Trump era.
Once celebrated, but now largely forgotten, novelist and short story writer Nelson Algren deserves the attention given to him in a wide-ranging documentary.
Director Anton Fuqua forgoes his usual action milieu with an unrelentingly tense, highly emotional English language remake of Den skyldige.
Cry Macho is little more than nostalgia for the Old West of Hollywood.
Docs at the Toronto International Film Festival ranged from the topical to the historical to the cultural. Here are a few that you should try to see.
This charming and upbeat musical doesn’t need to sashay away, but neither is it a hands-down winner.
Ben Whishaw crackles aplenty in Aniel Karia’s fresh and primal debut feature.
The Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll at Mid-Year: Warming Up a Riff — How It Happened, and Why It Matters