Toronto

Chuck Chuck Baby

Aug 30, 2023 | Festivals, Spotlight, Toronto, Toronto 2023

Debut director Janis Pugh’s off-beat musical rom-com ‘Chuck Chuck Baby’ is a rough-edged but warm-hearted celebration of working-class dreamers and queer liberation.

Subtraction

Oct 20, 2022 | Festivals, London, Spotlight, Toronto

Two of Iran’s biggest actors, Taraneh Alidoosti and Navid Mohammadzadeh, play double roles in Mani Haghighi’s chilling, fast-paced thriller with allegorical overtones about life in contemporary Iran.

A Long Break

Sep 16, 2022 | Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Spotlight, Toronto

Years of guilt and shame are exorcised in Davit Pirtskhalava’s stagy drama tracking the aftershocks of bullying.

The Gravity

Sep 14, 2022 | Festivals, Oldenburg, Toronto

Social tensions and strange cosmic disturbances collide in French director Cédric Ido’s imperfect but admirably ambitious genre-blurring thriller ‘The Gravity’.

A Man Of Reason

Sep 14, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto

Jung Woo-sung’s accomplished directorial debut is a South Korean actioner brimming with inventive flash that marks him as a filmmaker to watch.

The Fabelmans

Sep 12, 2022 | Festivals, Spotlight, Toronto

Steven Spielberg solidifies his legendary origin story playing with truth, fiction, and the magic of moviemaking.

Daughter of Rage

Sep 11, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto

Laura Baumeister’s feature debut is a critical and compassionate portrait of lives on the precarious edge of Nicaraguan society.

I Like Movies

Sep 10, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto

A caustically funny and sharply perceptive portrait of adolescence and the toxic perils of obsessive cinephilia.

Vicenta B.

Sep 10, 2022 | Festivals, San Sebastian, SAN SEBASTIAN 2022, Spotlight, Toronto, VENICE 2022

Director Carlos Lechuga sends a powerful farewell letter to a country adrift in depression and despair in this heartbreaking chronicle of the post-Cuban revolution.

The Listener

Sep 9, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Toronto, VENICE 2022

Steve Buscemi makes a rare return to directing for ‘The Listener’, starring Tessa Thompson, a well-meaning but slender single-person drama about hurting and healing in a post-Covid world.

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