TIFF: Filmmakers (and real-life spouses) Scarlett Bermingham and Andrew Rhymer direct Murphy and Cooper Raiff in a warm rom-com about generational disconnect, real chemistry, and hard choices. It's adorable.
Pretenders (Joss Crowley, 2026) 3½ out of 5 stars By now, the conventions of nonfiction biopics are familiar and, if done well, also enjoyable. Pick any public figure—or musical group—that you admire, and chances are that a competently made movie will engage and entertain. Such is the case with Pretenders, the latest foray into the […]
Summiting the North Side of Everest and skiing down was a feat. So was filming it. In the NatGeo documentary "Everest: The Other Side," we not only witness ski-mountaineer Jim Morrison's athletic heroism, but also Jimmy Chin's filmmaking prowess. This could be an Oscar contender.
TIFF: The director tells IndieWire that turning the celebrated one-woman play into a feature film with multiple locations, characters, and some extremely demanding scenes was exactly the kind of challenge she loves. Plus: a major star.
TIFF: As the Sundance winner readies for its fall release, writer/director Araújo and star Gemma Chan tell IndieWire how they ensured their revelatory child star Mason Reeves had the best time possible making her first film.
Seven years after “Moving On,” Korean filmmaker Yoon Dan-bi returns with “The World Before,” a coming-of-age film about desire and first love. Speaking with Variety ahead of the film’s Toronto Film Festival Platform world premiere, Yoon discusses how capturing the authenticity of change worked its way at every stage of the production. “I want to […]
“Happily Ever After,” the follow-up feature from Taiwanese director Feng-i Fiona Roan, is bowing in the Toronto Film Festival’s Special Presentations lineup, arriving amid heightened attention following the success of her acclaimed debut, “American Girl.” “American Girl” premiered in the Asian Future section of the Tokyo International Film Festival before earning seven Golden Horse Award […]
Abinash Bikram Shah’s “Elephants in the Fog” has been sold to distributors across 10 territories, Best Friend Forever has revealed, as the Cannes Un Certain Regard Jury Prize winner plays at the Toronto Film Festival with Nepal’s Oscars international feature submission also confirmed. New deals put the film with MetFilm Distribution in the U.K., Filmin […]
International sales company Parallax Films has boarded “Aman,” writer-director Rahul Roye’s short film about a trans man who discovers he is pregnant on the eve of his gender-affirming surgery, for worldwide sales. The announcement comes ahead of the film’s world premiere in the Short Cuts competition at the Toronto Film Festival, after which it travels […]
The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs (Èlia Gasull Balada/Matteo Norzi, 2026) 4½ out of 5 stars Every artist who agrees to have a movie made about them should be so lucky as to have their work photographed in as exquisite a manner as that used by Èlia Gasull Balada and Matteo Norzi (Icaros: A Vision) for the […]