Toronto Film Festival

My favorite thing about watching films at film festivals is the variety. You may watch one that spends two hours...

When you’re watching a film about a Chukotkan whlae hunter, you don’t necessarily expect it to open in a seedy...

God bless the French for making so many movies about love. The good kind of love, the bad kind of...

In two films I saw today, the protagonist ends up in court, a place for finding the truth and administering...

One of the great joys of covering film festivals is the discovery of talents, the sense of being struck by...

One of the most hotly anticipated films of this festival season finally premiered today. Written for the screen, directed and...

Being a longtime admirer, it’s a particular thrill for me to receive accreditation to cover the Toronto International Film Festival...

Do we have our Best Picture winner in Telluride or Toronto? Has it already been seen? The last film to...

Knives Out Sometimes you watch a film that has everything you want in a movie, executed perfectly.  Sometimes you see a...

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood How does one tell a story about Mister Rogers?  Fred Rogers was by all...

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu), the latest film from Celine Sciamma (Girlhood,...

Green Book, as predicted by Kris Tapley, has taken the People's Choice Audience Award at Toronto. Runners up were If...

The films that were expected to win Toronto did not. Instead, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri instead! I guess we...

Women dominate Toronto this year. Among the exemplary performances we’ve seen in the last 10 days: Frances McDormand in “Three...

It's been a mere nine years since Lady Gaga burst onto the scene with the release of Just Dance and...

This is the second time Vivian Qu has brought a film to the Toronto Film Festival. She was last here in...

The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw gives four stars for Glenn Close in The Wife - Close, who has never won an...

Premieres abound on the fourth day of TIFF. Alfonso-Gomez Rejon brought "The Current War" on the red carpet, a drama...

Mademoiselle Paradis opens with a gripping shot of Maria Paradis, a blind musician and composer. Rather than cut away, we...

If Telluride has been the place to find the next Best Picture winner, 11 years running now, TIFF has always...