Toronto Film Festival 2019: Borrowing from the imagery of his recent album of the same name, the film directed by Springsteen and Thom Zimny is both an intimate concert film and a series of musings on solitude and community
There’s a fun, punk energy to this post-apocalyptic tale, but a too-short running time undercuts the stakes and the fun
One part “Lord of the Flies” and one part Mica Levi’s dissonant score results in a fascinating but sometimes vague coming of age
The clashing notes of New York’s rattle and hum stir an audiophile to explain human behavior in this touching drama
The film answers the question no one asked: “What if the scientists who brought the dead back to life were immature jerks?”
The story of dancers getting their piece of the 1% works more than it doesn’t, but it’s all about J. Lo
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Justin Kurzel’s period drama stars George Mackay, Russell Crowe, Charlie Hunnam and Nicholas Hoult
Toronto Film Festival 2019: We’ve waited too long for a Tubman movie (and for Lemmons to return to the director’s chair) but this one disappoints
Toronto Film Festival 2019: It’s easier to cover this much ground in 784 pages than in a 2-hour-and-29-minute running time that begins to feel exhausting well before it ends
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Sandler makes for a hangdog Everyman sliding into desperation in a film by indie cinema’s masters of chaos
Jess Weixler and Adam Pearson (“Under the Skin”) star in a movie about a movie where lines get blurred
Satisfyingly cozy fan service struggles to keep up with dozens of “Downton” characters
Toronto Film Festival 2019: The New Zealand director has taken a risky premise and turned in a twisted piece of grandly entertaining provocation
in his fiery new play, Keith Hamilton Cobb unleashes on everything when told how to play Othello
Venice 2019: The “Jackie” director boldly uses music video aesthetics in setting a character study to a reggaeton beat
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Director Marielle Heller finds a state of real grace in her valentine to kindness
Venice 2019: Anchored by breathtaking visuals and a powerful child performance, Václav Marhoul’s three-hour film is a worthy endurance saga
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Writer-director William Nicholson’s look at the aftermath of a decades-long British marriage gives Bening plenty to act but not much to chew on
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Director Destin Daniel Cretton has made subtler movies than this one, but it was a true crowd-pleaser in its TIFF premiere
Where does the “It Chapter Two” place among the many big-screen adaptations of the horror master’s work?
Toronto Film Festival 2019: The creator of “Veep” and “The Death of Stalin” has fun with a color-blind take on Dickens’ large and wacky cast of characters
The actor takes the play’s big moments and makes them explode by underplaying them in this revival of the Harold Pinter classic
Toronto Film Festival 2019: You probably don’t remember it, but director Gabe Polsky spins a wild true story that includes Russian mobsters, Disney, strippers and the very weird collision of Russian and American hockey
Production values in a musical don’t matter if the songs and dances are great, but in this case, they are not
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Director Feras Fayyad’s cameras roam freely through an underground hospital in which many of the patients are indeed children who’ve grown up under the shadow of warplanes
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Daniel Roher’s documentary about the seminal musician is haunted by the deaths of three of Robertson’s fellow musicians in the Band
