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TIFF: Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ Wins 2020 People’s Choice Award And Becomes The Frontrunner For This Year’s Awards Season

September 20, 2020 12:40 pm

And there we have it. After going home with the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, Chloé Zhao‘s "Nomadland" just took the coveted People's Choice Award at the Toronto Internation...

’76 Days’ Is A Heartbreaking Inside Account Of The COVID Lockdown In A Wuhan Hospital [TIFF Review]

Chris Barsanti

September 18, 2020 2:58 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Set entirely in Wuhan, China during the 76-day COVID lockdown in early 2020, “76 Days” is a tight, tense, and, at times, unrelentingly emotional account of front-line pandemic medical combat. As a piece of hig...

‘The Water Man’: David Oyelowo Plunges You Into A Sweet, Spielbergian Adventure [TIFF Review]

Monica Castillo

September 18, 2020 11:22 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

David Oyelowo’s directorial feature debut, “The Water Man,” plays like a kid-friendly throwback to Steven Spielberg’s '80s movies. It’s a coming-of-age story filled with adventure, friendship, and some serious...

Martin Scorsese Warns Of Cinema Being “Marginalized And Devalued” & Shouldn’t Become “Comfort Food”

Charles Barfield

September 17, 2020 11:22 am

Festivals, News

Last year, Martin Scorsese found himself in the middle of a silly debate about whether or not Marvel Studios films (and franchise films, in general) were actual “cinema.” Comments made by the filmmaker contend...

‘The Boy From Medellín’: Matthew Heineman Shows A Different Side To Reggaeton Artist J. Balvin [TIFF Review]

Monica Castillo

September 17, 2020 9:47 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Before J. Balvin became a record-breaking chart-topper, he was José Álvaro Osorio Balvín, just another boy in Medellín, Colombia, with big dreams and an even bigger drive to make them come true. In Matthew Hei...

‘Another Round’ With Mads Mikkelsen Is A Boozy Blast Of A Midlife Crisis Movie [TIFF Review]

Marshall Shaffer

September 16, 2020 4:35 pm

Festivals, Reviews

Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” begins with the frenzied depiction of Danish youth completing a beer “case race,” though the debauched fun is fleeting for us – and them. The sequence collides with the film...

‘Violation’ Is A Smart & Visceral Take On The Rape-Revenge Narrative [TIFF Review]

Monica Castillo

September 16, 2020 11:36 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

True to its name, “Violation” is about an unforgivable transgression. Written, produced, and directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli, their feature debut follows Miriam (Sims-Fewer) on at least t...

‘Shadow In The Cloud’: Roseanne Liang & Chloe Grace Moretz Talk About Their Batsh*t Crazy WWII Genre Mashup [TIFF Interview]

Rodrigo Perez

September 15, 2020 2:35 pm

Festivals, Interviews, News

As evinced already by its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, and the strong reactions it provoked—not to mention our caustic review—discussing and writing about the Midnight Madness movie “Shadow In...

‘City Hall’: Frederick Wiseman’s Latest Is Four-Star Competency Porn [TIFF Review]

Jason Bailey

September 14, 2020 10:45 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

“The people who work for the city work for you,” explains Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, to a room full of his constituents. “They’re there to service you.” That simplest of ideas, a real gimme in the not-too-...

Dianne Weist, Rosamund Pike, I Care A Lot

Rosamund Pike: ‘I Was Getting Too Earnest For My Own Good’ [TIFF Interview]

Gregory Ellwood

September 14, 2020 10:22 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Festivals, Interviews, News

Rosamund Pike clearly relishes the opportunity to play characters with a bit of a nasty streak. Whether it's earning critical acclaim as the conniving Amy in David Fincher's "Gone Girl" or as a surgeon on a mi...

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