Apples: An Amnesia Pandemic Provides Fodder for this Debut Feature About Identity and Loss
By Karen Gordon
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Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel a Negligible Add to the Fabled Building's Canon
Thor: Love and Thunder - Fun Ride with Quips, Personal Crises, Cameos and Jane With the Hammer
By Karen Gordon
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Fourth of July: Louis C.K. Quietly Returns to Directing With a 'Safe' Dysfunctional Family Tale
Original-Cin Q&A: Karl Urban on Hunting Animated Sea Beasts and Being Covered in Blood on The Boys
By Bonnie Laufer
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Marcel The Shell with Shoes On: A Man and Mollusk in a Therapeutic Bond
Attack on Finland: Sort of 'Helsinki has Fallen,' But Devoid of Fun and Nonsense
The Passengers of the Night: French Film Plumbs the Quiet Joy of Ordinary Life. Shhh.
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekFrench films, Quiet angst, The Passengers of the Night, Mikhaël Hers, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Emmanuelle Béart, Megan Northam, Quito Rayon Richter, Noée Abita, Women rebuilding their lives
Interview (With SPOILERS): Star Trek's First Blind Actor on Cancer, Family and Facing Death
Interview, PreviewJim SlotekStar Trek: Strange New Worlds, Blind actors playing blind characters, Bruce Horak, Aenar, a blind species of the Andorian, Celia Rose Gooding, The Gorn, S1E9 “All Those Who Wander”, Characters who die
The Forgiven: Adaptation of High-Stakes Thriller a Masterclass in Revenge
ReviewJim SlotekThe Forgiven, Lawrence Osborne, adaptation, John Michael McDonagh, Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Matt Smith, Ismael Kanater, Caleb Landry Jones, Drama, North Africa, TIFF 2021
Mr. Malcom’s List: Sweet Period Piece Beholden to the Past yet Guided by the Present
ReviewJim SlotekMr. Malcolm’s List, Suzanne Allain, Emma Holly Jones, Period piece, Romance, 19th century, Costume drama, Sope Dirisu, Freida Pinto, Zawe Ashton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Minions The Rise of Gru: Dad Jokes, Bumbling Pill People and '70s References to 'Splain to Your Kids
The Black Phone: Creepy Child-Abduction Thriller Disturbs as Only Child-Abduction Thrillers Can
Official Competition: Film Satirizing Filmmaking Not Revelatory but Satisfying
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekDrama, Spanish Films, Spanish language, Official Competition, Andrés Duprat, Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn, Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Oscar Martínez
Slash/Back: Teen Girls Fight Aliens in an Indigenous Addition to the Monsters-in-the-Arctic Genre
Original-Cin Q&A: Inuit Horror Filmmaker Nyla Innuksuk on her Debut Slash/Back and Goonies Influence
Elvis: Baz Luhrmann's Tale of the King Hits the Stage Rocking, But Slows Down Over Time
The Long Rider: Hoofing It Into the History Books for 13,000 kms
The Toronto Japanese Film Festival is Back: Samurai, Yakuza, Manga and Tokyo trans life
PreviewJim SlotekToronto Japanese Film Festival, Return of live event film festivals, The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai, Last of the Wolves, Midnight Swan, Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, Japanese Academy Awards, Sensei, Would You Sit Beside Me?, Yukiko Sode’s Aristocrats, Mariko Yamauchi
Montana Story: A bitter homecoming in Big Sky country
