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.
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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.
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.
Glen Powell is a hilarious master of disguise in Hit Man
Richard Linklater serves up a very tasty slice of an incredibly loopy premise. Glen Powell gobbles it up and makes it work through the power of pure, unrelenting, leading man handsomeness. Nothing wrong with pairing a director who knows how to have a good time with an actor who’s ascending to movie star supernova. Here the daffy vaguely-true story meshes with an intensely charming performance into a delightful gumbo.
Evil Does Not Exist: after a tantalizing festival circuit, Hamaguchi’s latest lands a local run
Catching up with the rest of the week at the Toronto International Film Festival.
TIFF 2023: short dispatches from Aggro Df1ft, Dicks: the Musical!, and Poolman
Catching up with the rest of the week at the Toronto International Film Festival.
TIFF 2023: The Holdovers
Catching up with the rest of the week at the Toronto International Film Festival.
TIFF 2023: short dispatches on Hit Man, The Holdovers, and Next Goal Wins
Catching up with the rest of the week at the Toronto International Film Festival.
TIFF 2023: Origin
Ava DuVernay takes on A Whole Lot in attempting to transmute Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s provocative nonfiction book Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents to the screen.
TIFF 2023: short dispatches from the Pigeon Tunnel, Origin, The Burial, and Pain Hustlers
Catching up with the rest of the week at the Toronto International Film Festival.