Film Review: ‘Caniba’
The latest unidentified factual object from Harvard's convention-busting Sensory Ethnography Laboratory project makes a proud point of its unpleasantness.
Guy Lodge
Film Review: ‘Under the Tree’
It has the escalating, claustrophobic structure of the darkest farce, but humor doesn't pile up in "Under the Tree" so much as it bleeds out.
Toronto Film Review: Andrew Garfield in ‘Breathe’
Practically a household name if not a household face, Andy Serkis may have done more than anyone in contemporary film to revise and expand perceptions of what constitutes screen acting.
Toronto Film Review: ‘Dark River’
"You can't go home again," that age-old chorus of mature disillusionment, at first appears to be the driving current of "Dark River," a severe, stoic but internally screaming third feature from…
Toronto Film Review: ‘Beast’
Michael Pearce's prickly, twistily effective first feature "Beast" is kept on a ridge of queasy tension throughout.
‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival: Complete List of Winners
Guillermo del Toro's lavish romantic fantasy "The Shape of Water" won the Golden Lion for best film in Competition at this year's Venice Film Festival.
Toronto Film Review: ‘The Escape’
Savage's film thoughtfully and credibly outlines the conflict between a superficially abundant lifestyle and overwhelming internal lack.
Venice Film Review: ‘Hannah’
Pity the luckless fellow students in the amateur dramatics classes attended by the title character in “Hannah”: They might try their best, but week after week, they have to go up against Charlotte…
Venice Film Review: ‘Mektoub My Love: Canto Uno’
"Mektoub" is a frequently seductive sensory epic of equivalent ambition, yet despite its woozily pleasurable set pieces, the fraught emotions binding them are less urgent, and the perspective of its…
Venice Film Review: ‘Sweet Country’
“We’re all equal in the eyes of the Lord,” says a benevolent rural preacher in the opening scenes of “Sweet Country” — but the Lord’s eyes are evidently cast far from Alice Springs, the ravishing but…
Darren Aronofsky’s Outrageous ‘Mother!’ Throws Awards Voters a Curveball
Every good film festival needs a firestarter: a big, bold auteur film intended to split and disquiet audiences, whereupon the critical reaction winds up consuming as many analytical column inches as…
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Dan Gilroy Returns to Toronto With Denzel Washington in ‘Roman J. Israel, Esq.’ (EXCLUSIVE)
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‘The Shape of Water’ Wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival: Complete List of Winners
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Oscars: Jake Gyllenhaal and Jessica Chastain Arrive in Very Different Biopics
