The Life of Chuck is a departure for Mike Flanagan, who’s brought us memorable horror projects like The Haunting of Hill House over the years. We’ve become accustomed to certain…

It’s been a minute since a sports drama has made me teary, but Unstoppable (2024) is powerful storytelling that elicits an emotional response. Directed by William Goldenberg from a screenplay…

Acclaimed French writer-director Alain Guiraudie’s latest feature, Misericordia (Miséricorde), attempts to tackle repressed sexuality in a twisted mix of humor, secrecy, and deception. The film’s centerpiece is the mysterious Jérémie…

In Hard Truths , Mike Leigh’s beautifully humane drama, the writer-director takes us into the lives of an ordinary British Jamaican family with the easily bothered, miserable Pansy at the…

Zambian Welsh writer-director Rungano Nyoni returned to the Toronto International Film Festival with her second feature, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl. The gripping drama examines past trauma and abuse through…

Riding out the apocalypse in a bunker isn’t just for rich people, though they may be the most comfortable when the end times actually come. No one’s exactly comfortable in…

“It’s all luck really,” says one character in On Swift Horses, a 1950s set queer drama starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi. Though this character meets Edgar-Jones’ Muriel through gambling…

Nearly everyone’s been scammed on the internet – it’s a rite of passage at this point, to direct ire at some faceless person through a screen. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud asks…

One of the loveliest things about watching a film like We Live in Time is watching life being lived. Director John Crowley and writer Nick Payne paint a heartwarming, often…

I’ll be honest, I don’t entirely understand Kevin Costner’s Horizon project. I’m not really one to judge whether it makes business sense to make a multi-part Western saga for theatrical…