The latest Knives Out finds onetime boxer turned small town priest wrapped up in a thorny and inexplicable murder of a controversial Monsignor. A warm embrace in a world of wolves, this third iteration in the ongoing Benoit Blanc series represents a major emotional leap for the franchise while demonstrating its dexterity to reshape itself to meet the the current mood.
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TIFF 2025 Dispatches: Wake Up Dead Man, Nouvelle Vague, No Other Choice, Orwell 2+2 = 5, Blue Heron, Poetic License, Fuze
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
TIFF 2025 Dispatches: Tuner, Nuestra Tierra, Sound of Falling
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
TIFF 2025 Dispatches: Rental Family, Dead Man’s Wire, The Christophers
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
TIFF 2025 Dispatches: The Testament of Ann Lee, Miroirs No.3, The Lost Bus
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
TIFF 2025 Dispatches: It Was Just An Accident, The Wizard of the Kremlin, Christy, Franz, and Sirât
Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 4-14 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Ron Howard gives salacious true story of Floreana castaways the Hollywood treatment in Eden
Ron Howard dives into the dark scheming heart of humanity in recounting a true story of self-promotional Galapagos settlers in the 1930s.
The Life of Chuck reaches for multitudes
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.
On Swift Horses charts a midcentury yearning for modern identities
I suppose it’s kinda cool that the Hollywood’s hottest young stars now establish their acting cred by the rite of passage of playing gay on the big screen. At least Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar Jones avoid tragic weepy stereotypes in Daniel Minahan’s handsome literary take (an adaptation Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 novel) on queer identities in the 1950s American West.
Daniel Craig delves into a jungle of addiction and desire in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer
Thought if anyone could make the smack-addled writings of William S Burrows romantic it would have to be Luca Guadagnino, but alas.





