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‘Moonfish’ Review: Morgan Spector and Lucy Liu Voice a Spare but Evocative Animated Sci-Fi Suffused With Loneliness
Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Zvereff's Venice-bowing feature debut focuses on a pair of astronauts sent to an asteroid to collect a certain quota of rocks or risk being left there forever.
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‘The Face of Horror’ Review: Kristine Froseth Sparkles, but Anna Biller’s Medieval Tale Can’t Stop Getting in Its Own Way
The actress stars alongside Jonah Hauer-King, Ellie Bamber, Leo Suter and Bella Heathcote in the latest from the director of 'The Love Witch.'
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‘Masc’ Review: A Neurodivergent Gay Man Navigates the World in a Striking and Distinctive Debut Feature
Joshua Griffin plays the protagonist in Britain-based Swedish director Bertil Nilsson's film, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.
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‘Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo’ Review: Shun Oguri and Lily James in a Meandering Franchise Entry From Takashi Miike That’s Semi-Coherent at Best
The Japanese cult director follows Abel Ferrara and Werner Herzog in charting the downward spiral of a corrupt detective with a drug habit, this time navigating the yakuza underworld.
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‘Strange Neighbors’ Review: A Pretty but Familiar-Feeling Environmental Doc Portrays Natural Beauty Jostled by Man-Made Ugliness
Mi Steinbach's Oldenburg Fest world premiere examines the disparity between the wildlife on a small island and the factories, ships, and refineries closely adjacent to it.
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‘Tiny Fugitives’ Review: Alternately Tiresome and Amusing, Johnny Knoxville’s Chaotic Jewish Camp Comedy Is Essentially What You’d Expect
The 'Jackass' star plays a counselor desperately trying to retrieve some of his charges, who've made a break for it, in Michael Lewen's new film.
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‘The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd’ Review: Amanda Seyfried and Scoot McNairy Bring Raw Intensity to Tim Blake Nelson’s Death Row Drama
The director also appears in a stacked ensemble that includes Missi Pyle, Devyn Tyler, Elizabeth Marvel, Grant Harvey, William Jackson Harper and Wunmi Mosaku.
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‘Re/Pair’ Review: David Schwimmer, W. Kamau Bell and Van Jones Lead Pragmatic Doc About the Past and Present of Black-Jewish Relations
Lacey Schwartz Delgado's TIFF-premiering documentary explores the shifting dynamic between Blacks and Jews in America via 19 paired conversations.
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‘Onwards and Sideways’ Review: Lovely Turns by Laura Linney and Rhys Ifans Lift John Madden’s Parkinson’s Dramedy
Also featuring Rory Kinnear and Monica Dolan, the British film, about two people who bond over their shared diagnosis, is based on an autobiographical script by Paul Mayhew-Archer.
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‘Girl Group’ Review: Rebel Wilson Writes, Directs and Stars in Derivative Pop Slop as Bland and Unimaginative as Its Title
A washed-up former girl group singer turned messy drunk gets a shot at redemption after being forced to coach a bunch of teens preparing for a record label competition.
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‘Resident Evil’ Review: Zach Cregger Gives a Fatigued Franchise an Exhilarating Shot in the Arm
The auteur behind 'Weapons' and 'Barbarians' co-writes and directs the latest reboot of the horror film series based on the video games.
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‘Trash Mountain’ Review: A Gay Man Returns to His Conservative Hometown in a Warm, Perceptive Indie Comedy-Drama
Caleb Hearon and Zooey Deschanel star as siblings reconnecting after their father dies in the latest from filmmaker Kris Rey, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.
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‘Our Loves’ Review: An Overwhelming Subject Gets Underwhelming Treatment in Israeli Drama About People Trying to Survive the October 7th Attack
Writer-director Avi Nesher assembles a large ensemble of locally well-known actors to tell this story of fear and trauma, premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.
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‘Closing Night’ Review: Sarah Paulson and Naomi Watts Lead a Deluxe Cast in a Shrill Family Melodrama in Search of a Binding Tone
Dianne Wiest, Toby Wallace and Odessa A’zion flesh out the ensemble of actor Cody Fern’s first feature as director and co-writer, about a famed actress grappling with a dark secret in a time of crisis.
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‘Evil Genius’ Review: A Hilarious Patricia Arquette and David Harbour Make for a Bonkers Bonnie and Clyde in Courteney Cox’s Twisted True-Crime Yarn
The comic dramatization of 2003's notorious "Pizza Bomber" incident takes its cue from the Netflix series 'Evil Genius: The True Story of America's Most Diabolical Bank Heist."
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‘The Julia Set’ Review: Chase Infiniti Leads a Strong Ensemble as a College Math Genius in Algebra That Doesn’t Quite Balance the Equation
Christopher Briney, Jason Isaacs and Gillian Anderson also star in Niki Byrne’s debut about a gifted student too unwise about the world to subtract herself from a toxic relationship.
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