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‘Heretic’ Review: Hugh Grant’s Chilling Performance Gives Religious Horror Film Some Sinister Edge
Two Mormon evangelists are tasked with converting a reclusive older man in 'A Quiet Place' duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' feature co-starring Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East.
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‘Riff Raff’ Review: Jennifer Coolidge, Bill Murray and Ed Harris Labor Over a Crime Comedy That Doesn’t Deserve Them
Gabrielle Union, Pete Davidson and Lewis Pullman also star in Dito Montiel’s violent account of an uncomfortable family reunion that gets uglier once the patriarch’s shady past catches up with him.
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‘Meet the Barbarians’ Review: Julie Delpy’s Middling Refugee Comedy Has Its Heart in the Right Place
The latest feature from the director of '2 Days in Paris' reveals what happens when a tiny French town welcomes a Syrian family into its midst.
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‘Relay’ Review: Riz Ahmed Excels in David Mackenzie’s Mostly Clever Paranoid Thriller
The actor plays a fixer who brokers deals between whistleblowers and corporations in this gritty drama, also starring Lily James and Sam Worthington.
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‘Sketch’ Review: A Tender Tony Hale Anchors an Audacious, Intensely Colorful Tween Adventure
A 10-year-old girl's grief manifests as violent drawings come to life in writer-director Seth Worley's Spielbergian debut feature, also starring D'Arcy Carden.
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Native Trans Director Sydney Freeland Talks Authentic Casting: “I’m Double Used to Being Misrepresented”
Sydney Freeland in the long journey to complete her Netflix basketball-focused feature film, produced by LeBron James, had as a key goal to show real native lives on screen. But finding Indigenous basketball players was easier said than done, or at least at first, Freeland told a Toronto Film Festival audience on Monday. “Netflix bought the […]
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‘Without Blood’ Review: Salma Hayek Pinault and Demián Bichir in Angelina Jolie’s Overly Cautious War Parable
Adapted from a novella by Alessandro Baricco, the director's latest feature focuses on two strangers revisiting their memories of an unnamed war over a long evening.
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‘The Assessment’ Review: Elizabeth Olsen, Alicia Vikander and Himesh Patel Star in a Sci-Fi Chamber Drama That Impresses, Until It Doesn’t
Fleur Fortuné's drama takes place in a government-controlled future where a couple undergoes a strenuous examination to determine if they are allowed to have kids.
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‘Bring Them Down’ Review: Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan Are Compelling as Feuding Shepherds in an Otherwise Dour Irish Drama
The first feature from writer-director Christopher Andrews, about a violent turf war between two families of sheep herders, premiered in Toronto.
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‘The Wild Robot’ Review: Lupita Nyong’o and Pedro Pascal Make Unlikely Co-Parents in Poignant DreamWorks Animated Feature
A robot must raise an abandoned gosling with the help of other animals on a secluded island in Chris Sanders' film based on Peter Brown's best-selling books.
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‘The Last Showgirl’ Backer Pinky Promise on Building a “New and Exciting” Slate
When Kara Durrett and Jesse Burgum, the duo behind the production-finance company Pinky Promise, first met, it was 104 degrees. They were filming in the attic of a church in Decatur, Georgia, working on Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul, the first movie Burgum financed where Durrett was working as an independent producer. “A lot […]
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Malcolm Washington on Surprising His Mom With ‘The Piano Lesson’ Tribute
“It’s all a little overwhelming. When you make something that’s so personal to you, it feels like you’re just making it for yourself or for your people. But then you’re reminded that this will exist in the world,” says Malcolm Washington of his feature directorial debut, The Piano Lesson. The adaptation of the August Wilson […]
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