The Irishman | NYFF 2019
The mid-20th century male who stifles his feelings, incapable of expressing himself: the blood-splattered man in the gray flannel suit.
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The Australian Dream | TIFF 2019
An arresting and alarming documentary scrutinizes racism on the football field and throughout Australian culture, as experienced by one of the country's star players.
Frankie | TIFF 2019
If Portugal becomes overrun with tourists, blame can go to director Ira Sachs’s new drama.
Sorry We Missed You, American Woman | TIFF 2019 Kicks Off
Ken Loach returns to TIFF with a film that is, in many ways, as strong and less predictable than I, Daniel Blake, which won the Palme D’Or, and Toronto-based Semi Chellas adapts author Susan Choi's fictionalized take of Patty Hearst on the lam.
The Nightingale
If Jennifer Kent’s first film, The Babadook (2014), had a sinister undercurrent, her new and more multifaceted film unleashes it in full force.
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino's most exuberant and, believe it or not, minimalist film riffs on late-1960s Hollywood.
Ray & Liz
British photographer turned filmmaker Richard Billingham has re-created his teenage years of the 1970s and early ’80s, and in doing so has constructed an epiphany-free zone.