By Erin Brady
Mercenaries and demonic encounters featured in some of the most interesting films that played at this year’s TIFF.
A return to form for China’s Zhang Yimou with this tale of a village attempting to restore a damaged movie reel.
Alison Klayman delves into the origins and legacy of Alanis Morissette’s groundbreaking album ‘Jagged Little Pill’.
Stephen Karam adapts his own Tony Award-winning family drama with the help of an impressive ensemble cast.
By Erin Brady
A woman who sees spirits is committed to a psychiatric hospital in this book adaptation by Mélanie Laurent.
Riz Ahmed is a father on a mission to save his sons from an extraterrestrial threat in Michael Pearce’s complex sci-fi drama.
Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes spend a fateful weekend in Morocco in John Michael McDonagh’s scabrous class satire.
Jessica Chastain goes all-out in Michael Showalter’s superficial biopic of televangelist Tammy Faye Messner.
Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman ponder post-colonisation in this percussive, transcendental Afrofuturist musical.
A middle-aged man tends to a young girl with ice dentures in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s elliptical English-language debut.
By Erin Brady
Rob Savage’s follow-up to Host is a terrifying yet frustrating experience about social media narcissism.
Kenneth Branagh, Edgar Wright, Mélanie Laurent, Zhang Yimou, Terence Davies, and many more!
This year’s Short Cuts programme brought together bite-size perspectives from around the world.
The multi-hyphenate has created a hypnotic, incisive score for Charles Officer’s socially-conscious crime-noir.
Ben Sharrock spins absurd comedy from torment suffered by those waiting for asylum to be granted.
The animation studio behind Song of the Sea and The Secret of Kells return with a spellbinding revisionist fable.
Steve Coogan plays an odious fast fashion magnate in Michael Winterbottom's latest comedy.
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