Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Author: Josh
TIFF 2026 Dispatches: Rapinoe, Girl Group, Being Heumann, Closing Night
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 10-20 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Telluride 2026: La Bola Negra; Making Marie Antoinette
Notes from Monday at Telluride.
Telluride 2026: You Can See Everything; Fjord; Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Notes from Sunday at Telluride.
Telluride 2026: Club Kid; The Debut; Rose
Notes from Friday at Telluride.
Telluride 2026: Wild Horse Nine; Ink; Elsinore
Notes from Friday at Telluride.
Telluride kicks off 53rd SHOW with lineup drop, tribute announcements
Telluride announces the lineup for the 53rd Show.
Coyote vs. Acme gets its day in court
Based on a satirical essay by Ian Frazier in the New Yorker with a screenplay by Samy Burch (May December), the film opens in an ominous factory where a troubled scientist with a strong resemblance to Peter Lorre attempts an act of whistleblowing before being chased and imprisoned in a classic cartoon hole. Back in the modern-day desert outside of beautiful Albuquerque New Mexico, we find Wile E. Coyote well into his seventh decade of fruitless pursuit of the Road Runner.
With Tony, Matt Johnson brings Bourdain the man, the chef, the bildungsroman to the screen
Tony, a new biopic about the celebrated chef, author, and travel documentary auteur Anthony Bourdain, Matt Johnson gets almost all of the answers of how to make a good biopic just right. Eschewing the Walk Hard treatment and working from a screenplay from Seattleite Todd Bartels and co-writer Lou Howe, the movie considers a single summer on Cape Cod that shaped the course of Bourdain’s life and career.
Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma indulges Jane Schoenbrun’s sweet tooth
In Jane Schoenbrun’s latest film, an auteur and aging starlet are intertwined in a fantastical journey of self-discovery inspired by an imaginary 1980s slasher franchise about a psycho killer with a metal HVAC block for a head, a twin-tipped sea spear for a weapon, and the provocative nom de sangre The Little Death.