admin

TIFF Review: Barrio Triste is One of the Year’s Great Debuts
||
At barely two years old, Harmony Korine’s “post-cinema” company EDGLRD is already branching out. After directing AGGRO DR1FT and Baby Invasion, Korine takes on a producer role for Barrio Triste, the feature debut of Colombian-American artist Stillz. It’s a good...
continue reading
TIFF Review: Easy’s Waltz Finds Nic Pizzolatto Offering an Odd, Creaky New Hollywood Counterfeit
||
My friend (and Film Stage Managing Editor) Nick Newman likes the term “counterfeit money” to describe certain movies. Be it The Batman or Ben Affleck’s oeuvre, it’s an apt descriptor for a number of titles play-acting as real-deal adult filmmaking...
continue reading
Paul Thomas Anderson on Getting Thomas Pynchon’s Blessing to Radically Adapt Vineland: “I Stole the Parts That Really Resonated with Me”
||
After finally unveiling One Battle After Another last week with a Steven Spielberg-anointed screening and conversation, the early praise for Paul Thomas Anderson’s masterpiece of a comedy-action epic has been rightfully rapturous. While the story of revolutionaries is inspired by...
continue reading
TIFF Review: Two Pianos is Another Rich, Thoughtful Drama from Arnaud Desplechin
||
The past rears its not-so-ugly head in Two Pianos, Arnaud Desplechin’s latest film exploring the ways gorgeous people make an even bigger mess out of the messiness of life itself. Set amidst the world of classical music in Lyon, this...
continue reading
TIFF Review: Maddie’s Secret Showcases John Early’s Total Commitment 
||
You can’t accuse John Early of not committing. Through the majority of his acting career, the comedian has become a reliable avatar for a palpable, toxic, hilarious narcissism, playing characters oblivious to the world outside the bubbles they’ve so thoroughly...
continue reading
‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: The Musical Agony and the Ecstasy of Anne Lee
||
This protean fable is tremulous, tricky, and intrepid, much like its pious protagonist. The post ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ Review: The Musical Agony and the Ecstasy of Anne Lee appeared first on Slant Magazine.
continue reading
MotelX 2025 Review: BUZZHEART Makes Meeting The Parents Horrifying
||
After a striking opening scene, in which a young man and a young woman connect in a massage parlor after a clandestine handjob, and she invites him over to meet her parents immediately, the credits of Buzzheart start. They consist...
continue reading
MOTELX 2025 Review: ANYTHING THAT MOVES Has Sex And Murder On The Brain
||
Anything That Moves is that rare thing: a truly bizarre oddity of a film, for better or worse. Best described as a pastiche of sexploitation films, mixed with a serial killer thriller, it is something truly special: a sex-positive film...
continue reading
Toronto 2025: RETREAT, A Unique Film Shows an Isolated Community Hides Dark Secrets
||
If a person cannot be understood, if they need something outside of what is common in order to full live and thrive in our society, they are often shunted to the side at best, or at worst, treated as burdens...
continue reading
TIFF 2025: Table of Contents
||
Links to our extensive coverage of TIFF 2025.
continue reading