American Fiction | TIFF 2023
First time director Cord Jefferson accomplishes quite a balancing act. He has made a family drama and, more pungently and winningly, a satire aimed at an adult audience.
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Four Daughters | TIFF 2023
Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania cleverly strips off layer after layer of a family history in this engrossing, intimate, and expansive documentary.
Flora and Son | TIFF 2023
With a main character spouting piss, spit, and vinegar, as well as raunchy talk, John Carney's latest has an edge—and an R rating.
The Teachers’ Lounge | TIFF 2023
Ilker Catak’s pressure cooker drama has been chosen as Germany’s Best International Feature Oscar submission for 2023.
Viva Varda! | TIFF 2023
Pierre-Henri Gibert is the first director to take on the biography of maverick filmmaker Agnès Varda, apart from Varda herself.
In the Rearview | TIFF 2023
In the week of Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, director Maciek Hamela sits behind the steering wheel as a volunteer transporting displaced refugees fleeing the frontlines.
Stamped from the Beginning | TIFF 2023
If Ibram X. Kendi’s 2016 bestseller has been banned from your local library, Netflix has come to the rescue.
The Boy and the Heron | TIFF 2023
Without a doubt, the 82-year-old Hayao Miyazaki pulls out all stops visually in perhaps his most beautiful movie.
Dicks: The Musical | TIFF 2023
The best way to enjoy this four-letter-word-filled frolic is probably to be inebriated. (This reviewer could have used a drink while watching it.)