Viva Varda! | TIFF 2023
By Kent Turner September 14, 2023
Pierre-Henri Gibert is the first director to take on the biography of maverick filmmaker Agnès Varda, apart from Varda herself.
Pierre-Henri Gibert is the first director to take on the biography of maverick filmmaker Agnès Varda, apart from Varda herself.
Based on a popular young adult novel, the adaptation is a sensitively drawn coming-of-age tale of friendship and a potential romantic relationship between two Mexican American teens in late 1980s El Paso.
Sebastián Silva’s meta-fiction is one of the funnier and adventurous comedies of the year so far.
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.
If Ibram X. Kendi’s 2016 bestseller has been banned from your local library, Netflix has come to the rescue.
Without a doubt, the 82-year-old Hayao Miyazaki pulls out all stops visually in perhaps his most beautiful movie.
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.)
The latest addition to the growing number of Brazilian films that offer pungent perspectives on the country’s rising Evangelical movement.
Nicole Holofcener’s latest film showcases her trademark low-key take on the minor struggles of middle-class New Yorkers.