There’s nothing quite like a sobriety memoir to put an actor through their paces and Saoirse Ronan goes on a full marathon as an alcoholic searching for recovery, grace, and little birds in the harsh windswept beauty of the outer Orkney Islands
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Kyle MacLachlan to receive SFCS Award at SIFF Downtown next month
Some exciting news for fans of the vast and fascinating career of Yakima-born actor Kyle MacLachlan: he’ll be in town on October 30th to receive the Seattle Film Critics Society’s John Hartl Pacific Northwest Spotlight Award.
The Wild Robot takes flight with gorgeous animation and voice acting
A movie about a lost robot and a cynical loner fox raising an orphaned goose, plus the power of unlikely animal friendships? It’s as if this gorgeously animated marvel was built in a lab specifically to make me weep. Task accomplished, satisfaction rating 10/10.
Kate Winslet brings a spotlight to a pioneering photojournalist in Lee
In the title role of Lee Miller, Kate Winslet embodies the humanity of a pioneering photographer who was driven to bravely document the front lines of World War II.
TIFF 2024 Journal: Dispatches from the Toronto International Film Festival
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 5-15 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Demi Moore triumphs in body horror satire The Substance
At long last, someone is brave enough to answer the question of whether there is anything grosser than watching Dennis Quaid eat shrimp.
Will & Harper, an illuminating cross-country road trip of discovery
Comedy superstar Will Farrell joins his recently-transitioned friend for an illuminating cross-country road trip of strikingly honest conversations and open-hearted discovery.
TIFF 2024: Nightbitch
Amy Adams is phenomenal as an artist who set her career aside to raise an adorable child; she sells the madness of isolation as her identity attempts to reclaim itself with hallucinations (maybe) that she’s turning into a dog.
TIFF 2024: On Swift Horses
I suppose it’s kinda cool that the hottest young stars in Hollywood now establish their cred by the rite of passage of playing gay. In Daniel Minahan’s adaptation of Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 novel, at least Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar Jones avoid tragic weepy stereotypes in this handsome literary take on queer identities in the 1950s American West.
TIFF 2024: The Life of Chuck
Told in three acts in reverse, Mike Flanagan has made a lovely little Stephen King adaptation about how Tom Hiddleston came to be an exceptional dancer who contains multitudes.