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Once Within a Time looks to a new generation

Godfrey Reggio’s latest uses a mix of visuals, past and futuristic, to argue for resting our hopes on the children.

TIFF Dispatch: Shadow of Fire

Shinya Tsukamoto's film attempts to explore hope and sorrow in post-war Japan, with mixed results.

TIFF Dispatch: Pictures of Ghosts

The Kleber Mendonça Filho-helmed doc mourns and celebrates an era of cinema that seems to be crumbling beneath our feet.

Unraveling pop-culture one thread at a time

The Spool is an irreverent, informative source for film and television coverage, focused on diverse, thoughtful opinions that seek out a greater understanding of the media we love.

TIFF Dispatch: Seven Veils

Atom Egoyan's latest doesn't hide from academic sincerity.

TIFF Dispatch: Do Not Expect Too Much Of the End of the World

Expect plenty from Do Not Expect Too Much Of the End of the World.

Not even the supernatural can elevate Falcon Lake

Charlotte Le Bon’s debut feature suffers from offering familiar beats with almost methodical proceduralism.

Reality traps itself

The film's reliance on accuracy leaves little room for artistry.

Sundance 2023: Fairyland & Joyland

Two tales of fathers and repression explore the importance of self-realization and the cost of parental absence.

Sundance 2023: Drift & The Eight Mountains

A pair of films out of the festival chronicle friendships new and old with differing degrees of success.

Sundance 2023: Infinity Pool & Fair Play

Brandon Cronenberg & Chloe Domont direct stylish films about sex & violence among the bourgeoise wealthy.

Sundance 2023: Heroic

The military drama overcomes cliché to capture structural horror.

The Wonder doesn’t live up to its name

An underwhelming Netflix offering is only somewhat elevated by Florence Pugh.

Sundance 2022: Nanny

Stylish and engaging, the film nonetheless muddles its own voice too often.

Sundance 2022: 892 is a mawkish social-issue thriller that dances around its central issues

A game cast can't save Abi Damaris Corbin's misguided, manipulative account of a real-life tragedy.

The Humans finds familiar faces in disquieting places

Camera work redeems the film adaptation's revisiting of common ground.

Colin in Black and White uses the athlete’s message to preach to the choir

Who is this co-opting of the activist athlete's message for, exactly?

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain provides spectacle, little substance

Benedict Cumberbatch gives a big performance in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, a film that offers little insight into the artist's life.

TIFF 2021: What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? Not as much as we might with a lighter touch

Alexandre Koberidze's film is lovely and well-performed, but overly insistent on its epic status.

TIFF 2021: The Survivor won’t be going for the belt anytime soon

The Survivor wastes Ben Foster and Vicky Kreips in an overfamiliar prestige drama that botches its approach to the Holocaust.

TIFF 2021: The frustrating Quickening has only one thing to recommend it

Quickening star Arooj Azeem gives a breakout performance, but the rest of the film simply does not match her good work.

TIFF 2021: As In Heaven is a divinely made hybrid of character study and nightmare

With As in Heaven, Tea Lindeberg and star Flora Lindhal craft a stupendous study of a young woman's struggle with her faith amidst horror.

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