TIFF 2021: Drive My Car is a dense, lyrical take on life after grief
Ryusuke Hamaguchi adapts a Haruki Murakami short story & gives it additional depth & soul.
Ryusuke Hamaguchi adapts a Haruki Murakami short story & gives it additional depth & soul.
While the first movie in the series was stylish & unexpectedly moving, it was tainted by cheap, empty sequels that forgot what made it special.
From The Assistant to Wolfwalkers, we guide you through the cinema that survived a devastating 2020 and made it to our screens — and hearts.
Showtime’s pulpy series thrives with sense of place and unexpected thematic weight.
Diane Keaton’s turtlenecks and Jeremy Irons can’t save a creaky, borderline offensive ensemble rom-com with none of the spirit of its forebears.
A bona fide example of ’80s trash horror, Jim Wynorski’s tale of killer robots and horny teens is its own kind of therapy.
Starring the 2018 Broadway revival cast, director Joe Mantello gives the 1968 gay classic new life.
Regina King’s directorial debut delivers a resonant message through a phenomenal cast and thought-provoking screenplay.
The red panda keeps raging against the machine as the cartoon becomes even more painfully relatable.
With loss of control dressed up in nutty numerology, Joel Schumacher’s 2007 thriller is a flawed thematic tie-in to his other work.
Joel Schumacher’s sleazy, sweaty neo-noir of porn and pain remains a bizarre artifact for the director’s filmography, and it hasn’t lost its bite.
Four decades later, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker’s pitch-perfect disaster spoof is the template for the absurdist movie parody.
New Line sends Jason to the final frontier, and sends all the thinly-drawn characters and low-budget kills of the franchise with him.
The iconic video game franchise gets a prickly, unoriginal adaptation that piles on the contrivances and dated references.
Jim Carrey returns as a kids’ show host who stubbornly continues to choose goodness, no matter what life throws at him.
Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai sees Jim Jarmusch integrating hip-hop atmosphere with samurai genre trappings to create a dorm-room favorite.
Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne and Salma Hayek glow up an otherwise-dire January comedy about fashion and friendship.
Jim Gaffigan’s hangdog performance and an unexpectedly nuanced script elevate a stock comedy scenario into something genuinely thoughtful.
Marvel’s first female-led superhero film is a modest but meaningful success.
A quarter of a century later, Reality Bites offers a frustratingly incomplete portrait of the MTV generation.
With Glass coming out, we plumb through our collective psyches to discuss Brian De Palma’s split-personality thriller Raising Cain.