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TIFF
TIFF: While Max Minghella's latest effort contains some solid jokes, it ultimately plays out like a much weaker version of "The Substance."
TIFF
TIFF: By minimizing the body horror aspects of Rachel Yoder's novel, Heller crafts a story that's primarily focused on the impossible expectations of motherhood.
TIFF
TIFF: Based on a Stephen King novella, the Tom Hiddleston-starring drama is a departure for Mike Flanagan.
2000s Week
"Saw," "Hostel," and the rest of their violent sub-genre were a cry of despair in a world that had moved beyond the clear binary of good and evil.
Tribeca
Joel Potrykus and his muse Joshua Burge revive the characters they played in "Buzzard" for the director's bleakest movie yet.
With “The People’s Joker," Vera Drew is doing the exact thing that studios have been asking superhero fans to do for years: She’s telling her life story through the medium of Batman characters.
SXSW
SXSW: Alex Garland's skillful but joyless vision of our near future marks a return to form for the "Men" director.
SXSW
SXSW: Bernardo Britto’s time loop movie seamlessly blends sci-fi tropes with modern reality, which sometimes keeps its high concept premise from reaching its full potential.
SXSW
SXSW: The artist formerly known as Ken returns as a washed-up stuntman who still burns for Emily Blunt, the ex who's directing his latest action movie.
SXSW
Patel's grimy, ultraviolent mixtape of action influences has the chaotic unpredictability of Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy" and the neon gunplay of the “John Wick” franchise.
SXSW
SXSW: The "Star Wars" star leads this unique neo noir thriller, which was certainly one of the most anticipated films at SXSW this year.
SXSW
SXSW: A compelling breakout by Cameron Dawson Gray anchors what is otherwise very much a first film from director Benjamin Finkel.
