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TIFF 2025: Motor City, I Swear, Canceled: The Paula Deen Story

by admin|10 months ago07 September 2025|Roger Ebert

The producers of Potsy Ponciroli’s take the “strong, silent type” to extremes in the playful “Motor City,” a movie that plays like a grittier cousin of John Woo’s “Silent Night” in that it’s another action flick with almost no dialogue....

‘Sirât’ Review: Óliver Laxe’s Parable Is a Sensorially Rich and Trippy Desert Odyssey

by admin|10 months ago07 September 2025|Slant Magazine

The film is a vivid meditation on human possibility in the face of fate and nature’s power. The post ‘Sirât’ Review: Óliver Laxe’s Parable Is a Sensorially Rich and Trippy Desert Odyssey appeared first on Slant Magazine.

‘Late Fame’ Review: Kent Jones’s Amiable New York City Poet Drama Pulls Its Punches

by admin|10 months ago07 September 2025|Slant Magazine

The film’s desire to resist easy storytelling paradigms is admirable, but only up to a point. The post ‘Late Fame’ Review: Kent Jones’s Amiable New York City Poet Drama Pulls Its Punches appeared first on Slant Magazine.

A Buñuelian Fable Unfolds in Exclusive Trailer for Karla Badillo’s TIFF Premiere Oca

by admin|10 months ago07 September 2025|The Film Stage

Making its world premiere this Tuesday as part of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival’s Discovery section, Karla Badillo’s directorial debut Oca tells a Buñuelian fable of faith, pilgrimage, and revelation. With the impressive cast of Natalia Solián (Huesera: The...

TIFF Review: Romain Gavras’ Sacrifice is a Pop Satire That Falls Flat

by admin|10 months ago07 September 2025|The Film Stage

It’s not too grand a statement to say the environment you watch a film in will heavily impact how you feel about it. This was the case with Sacrifice, a supposed satire of the uber-rich and celebrity worship that, viewed...

Toronto 2025 Review: ROSE OF NEVADA, Between a Rift in Time and the Deep Blue Sea

by admin|10 months ago07 September 2025|Screen Anarchy

I am far from the first cinephile to point this out, but there is no substitute for print film when it comes to conveying texture. The crisp quality of digital may give clarity, but there is a depth to a...

TIFF Review: Carolina Caroline is a Crime Drama Centered on Love

by admin|10 months ago07 September 2025|The Film Stage

How do you tell when you stop being good people pretending to be bad and realize you’re just bad people who can’t even trick themselves into thinking they’re anything but? Caroline (Samara Weaving) asks this aloud earlier than you might...

‘The Long Walk’ Review: This Stephen King Adaptation Holds a Harrowing Mirror to Reality

by admin|10 months ago07 September 2025|Slant Magazine

This ferocious adaptation of King’s novella as a passion play about class solidarity. The post ‘The Long Walk’ Review: This Stephen King Adaptation Holds a Harrowing Mirror to Reality appeared first on Slant Magazine.

Vlissingen 2025: Recommendations

by admin|10 months ago07 September 2025|Screen Anarchy

Next weekend sees the start of the 27th Film by the Sea Festival in the town of Vlissingen (Flushing), in the South-West of the Netherlands. A harbortown with beautiful beaches, it's in an area of scattered islands and peninsulas (and...