Weekly Digest
Watch List Digest: Special TIFF Edition
I went to the Toronto International Film Festival and watched 20 movies in six days. Here's the best of them.
Festival Reports
Festival Reports
Toronto Report III: "Hamnet," "Frankenstein" and more
Reviews of the new Chloé Zhao, del Toro's monster movie, "The Smashing Machine," "Good Fortune" and "The Christophers"
Festival Reports
Toronto Report II: "Knives Out," "Ann Lee," "Bad Apples" and a "Lost Bus"
Coming to theaters near you: A darker, deeper (but still funny!) "Knives Out," an 18th-century rave about the founder of the Shakers, a new Saoirse Ronan and more.
Festival Reports
Toronto Report I: "Sentimental Value," "It Was Just an Accident," "Nouvelle Vague"
Joachim Trier's best movie to date? Richard Linklater's love letter to Godard and Truffaut? Peak Panahi? Read on.
Festival Reports
Sundance 2025 Report III
Reviews of "The Wedding Banquet," "The Perfect Neighbor," "Free Leonard Peltier," "Peter Hujar's Day," "Gen_" and "Zodiac Killer Project"
Festival Reports
Sundance 2025 Report II
Reviews of "Train Dreams," "Rebuilding," "The Kiss of the Spider Woman" and "Together."
Festival Reports
Sundance 2025 Report I
Arab teenage rebels, Sly Stone, Pee-wee Herman and more from the first three days of the Sundance Film Festival.
Festival Reports
TIFF 2024 Report, Part 2
Eleven more thumbnail reviews from the fall movie season's bellwether film festival. "Megalopolis," "The Brutalist," a new Almodovar and Guadagnino, and more.
Festival Reports
TIFF 2024 Report I
Brief reviews of 11 new films from the trenches of the Toronto International Film Festival, including "The Apprentice," "Anora," "The Substance" and "Nightbitch."
Festival Reports
What to Watch (at the Toronto Int'l Film Festival)
I'm reposting my WaPo TIFF run-up article from this past weekend because I'm at the airport right now about to embark for Toronto and will soon dive into my five-movies-a-day routine until next Wednesday, with occasional forays to the surface for air and to send out
Festival Reports
What To Watch: Sundance Online!
Eight festival films to dial up this weekend. Plus: Two chillers on Netflix.
Festival Reports
Sundance Report II: "Love" and "Pain" and The Whole Damn Thing
Reviews of "A Real Pain," "Love Lies Bleeding," "Black Box Diaries," My Old Ass," "The Outrun," and "Presence."