Apple TV’s Powerful Tribute to a Real-Life Love Story Is One of the Year’s Best Docs

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Apple TV’s Powerful Tribute to a Real-Life Love Story Is One of the Year’s Best Docs

In Come See Me in the Good Light, the powerful documentary by Ryan White, there’s a scene where Poet Laureate Andrea Gibson reads the results of their latest bloodwork to their wife, Megan Falley. In 2021, Gibson was diagnosed with…

Angelina Jolie Has Her Life Turned Upside Down In Alice Winocour’s Fashion Week Anthology [TIFF]

TORONTO – It’s easy to imagine how much the script for Alice Winocour’s “Couture” resonated with Angelina Jolie. Her character, Maxine, an American movie director known for her work in the horror genre, has been hired by a Paris fashion…

Bugonia Review | Flickreel

Bugonia is carried by two powerhouse performances from Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons. She’s a pharmaceutical CEO whose fierce negotiating skills are put to the ultimate test. He’s a conspiracy nut who’s too much of a loner for Scientology. Plemons’…

Samuel L. Jackson Is a Great Addition to Sly Stallone’s Mob Drama

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Tulsa King Season 3 Episode 9. Last week, things got personal on Tulsa King, as Episode 8 concluded with a literally explosive finale, as the terrorist Deacon planted a bomb at a…

Nicolas Cage Distracts In An Underwhelming Biblical Horror Despite A Solid Effort From Noah Jupe

Lotfy Nathan's Roman-era horror The Carpenter's Son is borne from a conflagration of Biblical texts, which all somehow converge to create something far more convoluted than its itinerant parts. The main text in question is The Infancy Gospel of Thomas,…

Sentimental Value Review: A Tender, Turbulent Masterwork

Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value might be his most emotionally layered, morally thorny, and formally assured film to date, a culmination of the themes that have pulsed through his Oslo trilogy and his collaborations with co-writer Eskil Vogt. Here, he crafts…

Tatiana Maslany and Osgood Perkins Elevate an Underwhelming Horror Tale

The last year has truly been an impressive one for writer-director Osgood Perkins, who, after films like 2015’s The Blackcoat’s Daughter and 2020’s Gretel & Hansel, really became a horror director to watch with 2024’s Longlegs. The film was a…

Vince Vaughn Shines Through Nic Pizzolatto’s World-Weary Vegas Drama [TIFF]

TORONTO – Written and directed by Nic Pizzolatto, the creator of HBO’s crime series “True Detective,” “Easy’s Waltz” is a show business showdown between those who have ambition and those who hold power. The film’s leading star, Vince Vaughn, takes…

Colleen Hoover’s Regretting You Review

On the surface, Regretting You seems like a typical teen romance. Mckenna Grace’s Clara is a bright young woman with a promising future. Mason Thames’ Miller has a heart of gold, but he comes from a troubled background and always…

Mark Harmon’s Return Can’t Fully Save This Prequel Series’ Decades-Spanning Case

CBS is spoiling us rotten with this week's NCIS programming. Not only do we get the infamous Veterans Day crossover between the flagship show and NCIS: Origins that was teased before the season started, but Origins Episode 5 kicks off…

Ira Sachs’ Drama Is A Portrait Of Rare Intimacy & One Of The Year’s Best Acted Films

"I often have the feeling that in my day, nothing much happens... and I've wasted it." So muses photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) midway through his recorded conversation with his friend, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall). Linda has solicited…

Finding the Ghost in the Machine

Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is a somber, deeply human biographical musical drama that refuses to play by the usual rhythms of the rockstar movie. Rather than glorifying fame or recreating Bruce Springsteen’s greatest hits, the film immerses…

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