Sunday, Sep. 17, 2023

Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” a biting satire starring Jeffrey Wright as a disillusioned academic, has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a much-watched bellwether in the Oscar race.

“American Fiction” is the directorial debut of Jefferson,...

Thursday, Sep. 14, 2023

Three generations of a Ukrainian family sit in a van in the documentary "In the Rearview." They stare straightforward, staggered by all they've left behind. Their home. The dogs they set loose. Their cow, Beauty.

"She cried as we left," a child says.

"In the Rearview," which...

Thursday, Sep. 14, 2023

There's been no shortage of hit-man movies at film festivals this fall. You could line them up on a rooftop somewhere, each with their sniper rifles aimed out at audiences: David Fincher's "The Killer," Michael Keaton's "Knox Goes Away," Harmony Korine's "Aggro Dr1ft."

But the one that...

Wednesday, Sep. 13, 2023

Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington, who often worked tirelessly out of the limelight, takes center stage in the new Netflix drama "Rustin."

The film, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday, stars...

Tuesday, Sep. 12, 2023

Louis C.K. came to the Toronto International Film Festival six years ago with the hotly anticipated "I Love You, Daddy," just as allegations of sexual misconduct against the comedian were gaining new prominence.

The movie sold at TIFF for $5 million, but before it could reach theaters,...

Monday, Sep. 11, 2023

Think of movies about the financial system and your mind is almost sure to go to Gordon Gekko and "Wall Street" or Leonardo DiCaprio's gyrating Jordan Belfort in "The Wolf of Wall Street."

When Hollywood takes on Wall Street, it usually heads straight to the C-suite.

The...

Monday, Sep. 11, 2023

Fifty pages into Percival Everett's "Erasure," Cord Jefferson knew he wanted to adapt it into a movie script. Halfway through, he began to see Jeffrey Wright playing the book's academic protagonist, Thelonious "Monk" Ellison. By the time he was finished, he knew he wanted to direct it, too....

Sunday, Sep. 10, 2023

After a three-and-a-half-hour documentary on his life, Paul Simon had only sympathy for the audience.

"You're probably exhausted," Simon told the crowd after the premiere of Alex Gibney's "In Restless Dreams: The Music of Paul Simon" on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival....

Sunday, Sep. 10, 2023

Vicky Krieps noticed that while there's plenty of instruction for getting into a role, there's curiously little about getting out of one.

For Krieps, the disarmingly natural Luxembourgish actor of "Phantom Thread,""Corsage" and "Bergman Island," it's not a small issue. It may even be the...

Friday, Sep. 8, 2023

The loudest applause on opening night at the Toronto International Film Festival was for Totoro.

When the Studio Ghibli logo of the magical creature from Hayao Miyazaki's "My Neighbor Totoro" appeared on the screen Thursday night, it meant to the audience the premiere of Miyazaki's latest...

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