Criticism
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TIFF: Huang Xi’s elegant second feature sees a grieving mother navigate what to do with her deceased daughter’s healthy embryo.
Childless Catwoman To the Rescue
HBO's eight-episode spinoff of "The Batman" doesn't deepen Colin Farrell's waddling mobster as much as it underlines the con-artist appeal of his callous villainy.
Venice
Filmmaker Valerio Mastandrea stars in this melancholic ghost story about the souls of coma patients.
Film review
Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry star in the animated prequel to the popular franchise, exploring the origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron.
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TIFF: Dito Montiel's latest owes a lot to much better films.
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A high school basketball team rebounds from tragedy and gets in touch with their Navajo roots in this charming underdog story.
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TIFF: Nick Hamm's feature adapts Friedrich Schiller's epic play into a competent saga of embracing one's destiny.
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A French man living in Tokyo hopes to reunite with the daughter who Japanese law won't allow him to see in this tough and tender film by Guillaume Senez.
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TIFF: The beloved cinematographer has long wanted to bring the Olympian's fraught story to the big screen. Armed with a Barry Jenkins script, she finds new dimension in a staid genre.
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Robinson and Paul Rudd co-star in a demented bromance that plays like a feature-length version of "I Think You Should Leave."
Film Review
James Watkins' American take on the 2022 Danish horror movie is led by an effectively creepy James McAvoy — until it's ground into "Straw Dogs"-lite domestic comeuppance pulp.
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TIFF: Leila Amini’s intimately focused film about how Iranian women struggle to balance motherhood with ambition should resonate around the globe.
