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News
- ‘Back In Black’ Review: Christopher Walken & A Good Script Are Wasted in a Badly Directed Comedy [TIFF]
- Mahershala Ali Is Grateful Marvel’s ‘Blade’ Covered Fight Training Costs for Buzzy ‘Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother’: “They Helped Pay For Our Movie”
- ‘Minotaur’ Trailer: Andrey Zvyagintsev Returns with a Cannes Grand Prix-Winning Tale of Adultery, Power & Violence
Box Office
- ‘Practical Magic 2’ Dethrones ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ at Domestic Box Office, ‘The Odyssey’ Becomes Universal’s Highest-Grossing Movie
Features
- ‘The Last Photograph’ Review: Zack Snyder’s Striking Images Can’t Save a Hollow, Calamitous Misfire [TIFF]
- ‘The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd’ Review: Amanda Seyfried & Scoot McNairy Are Extraordinary in Tim Blake Nelson’s Unflinching Prison Drama [TIFF]
- ‘Prima Facie’ Review: Cynthia Erivo Captivates But Something Is Lost in This Stage-to-Screen Adaptation [TIFF]
- ‘Ancestors’ Review: Éanna Hardwicke Mesmerizes But David Turpin’s Queer Drama Fades Fast [TIFF]
Television
- ‘Crystal Lake’ Trailer: Linda Cardellini Becomes Pamela Voorhees in Peacock’s ‘Friday the 13th’ Prequel Series
- ‘American Hostage’ Review: Jon Hamm Leads a Timely, Overstuffed Drama About Media, Money, and a Changing America
- Amazon & Sony Weigh Four New Spider-Man TV Series, Could Move Forward with Two After ‘Spider-Noir’ Cancellation
- Lilly Wachowski Blasts J.K. Rowling & Says Supporting ‘Harry Potter’ Means Supporting “Trans Genocide”
Interviews
- Tim Blake Nelson on ‘The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd’ and Why Ethan Coen Told Him, “Jesus, You Went There”
- Owen Wilson Talks ‘Runner,’ Alan Ritchson, and Thinks His Wes Anderson Western “Is Going to Happen” [Interview]
- Na Hong-Jin on ‘Hope,’ Why the Sequel Shifts to the Aliens, and His Darker, Bloodier Next Film [Interview]
- Andrew Garfield Talks ‘The Uprising,’ Spider-Man, Sam Altman, and Paul Greengrass [The Discourse Podcast]
- Paul Schrader on ‘The Basics of Philosophy,’ Why People Probably Can’t Change, and Suicide as “The Final Control of Your Life” [Interview]
Reviews
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Festivals
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‘Misty Green’ Review: Rosalind Eleazar & Daniel Kaluuya Are Magnetic in Chris Rock’s Messy Hollywood Satire [TIFF]
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‘All That She Wants’ Review: Annie Murphy & Cooper Raiff Give the Indie Romantic Comedy a Much-Needed Jolt [TIFF]
Podcasts
- Andrew Garfield Talks ‘The Uprising,’ Spider-Man, Sam Altman, and Paul Greengrass [The Discourse Podcast]
- ‘Idiots’: Dave Franco Talks Macon Blair’s Gross-Out Comedy, a “Superhero” Diarrhea Shot, and His Next Horror Film [Interview]
Awards
- ‘The Pitt’: Shawn Hatosy Teases Abbot’s Hidden Treasure and the Potential for a Sequel