Frankie | TIFF 2019
If Portugal becomes overrun with tourists, blame can go to director Ira Sachs’s new drama.
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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.
De Lo Mio | BAMcinemaFest 2019
The festival can boast of its own discovery, the world premiere of director Diana Peralta’s debut film, a family drama of regret and remembrance.
Give Me Liberty, The Amazing Johnathan Docuentary, So Pretty | BAMcinemaFest 2019
A one-stop destination for those who haven’t been to Park City or Austin this year.
This One’s for the Ladies
Director Gene Graham’s documentary is one of the few recent movies that have been released with the restrictive NC-17 rating, but don’t let that fool you: its outlook is more wholesome than prurient.