Our film staff reports from one of the year’s most prominent film festivals where fall prestige movies screen alongside independent dramas, a vast slate of international imports, scrappy midnight-madness horror movies, and much more.
Freaks is a thrilling science fiction film worth knowing nothing about
Avoid spoilers and embrace the mystery
Outlaw King is a purposeful but empty bid for Netflix’s filmmaking legitimacy
Chris Pine stars in a grim and bloody historical epic that’s the definition of a prestige picture, but it can only bring Netflix prestige on the big screen
The new Halloween is a slasher movie with an actual message
Director David Gordon Green delivers a very 2018 entry for the 40-year-old franchise
First Man is one of the most intense space movies of all time
Director Damien Chazelle and Ryan Gosling reunite to tell the story of Neil Armstrong and everything that went wrong on the way to Apollo 11’s success
Netflix’s Hold the Dark throws Jeffrey Wright to the wolves
It strands its protagonist early on
Destroyer is a guilt-ridden detective story made by one incredible director
Nicole Kidman stars in Karyn Kusama’s modern noir
Sep 19, 2018Tasha Robinson and Bryan Bishop
Lessons from TIFF on the next year in film
From Chris Pine’s unfortunately famous penis to the latest trends in horror cinema
A Star is Born proves some Hollywood stories are timeless for a reason
It’s a tremendous feature debut for Lady Gaga and director Bradley Cooper
The Predator could have been the franchise’s chance to finally have an identity
Shane Black tries to bring the franchise back to life and doesn’t quite get there
