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TIFF Lays Off 31 Full-Time Staff and Cuts Salaries Due to COVID-19 Revenue Forecast

PUBLISHED Jun 23, 2020

As recently as last month, organizers at the Toronto International Film Festival suggested that they still plan to have a physical festival...

'The Rest of Us' Is a Compelling Examination of Unlikely Friendships

Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee

PUBLISHED Jun 15, 2020

How are you supposed to feel when mourning the death of a lousy person? That's the complex emotional situation that The Rest of Us explores...

TIFF Still Plans to Have a Physical Festival in 2020

PUBLISHED May 28, 2020

Last month, organizers for the Toronto International Film Festival expressed that their 2020 edition is still happening, and some new comme...

'Blood Quantum' Shuffles the Zombie Genre Forward

Directed by Jeff Barnaby

PUBLISHED Apr 27, 2020

It appears that the zombie renaissance is officially behind us — or at least as dead as the genre can fittingly get — which means that now...

The Toronto International Film Festival Is Still Happening

PUBLISHED Apr 22, 2020

The coronavirus has rendered large gatherings impossible for much of 2020 so far, and that includes big events like film festivals. While w...

'The Father' Is Masterfully Acted and Almost Unbearably Bleak

Directed by Florian Zeller

PUBLISHED Mar 29, 2020

During an early scene in The Father, daughter Anne (Olivia Colman) speaks with titular dad Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) about the need to find...

'The Song of Names' Is a Both a Powerful War Drama and a Clumsy Mystery

Directed by François Girard

PUBLISHED Mar 18, 2020

"The Song of Names" refers to a mournful Jewish prayer, a days-long recitation of names of Holocaust victims set to music. As the basis for...

Daniel Radcliffe's 'Guns Akimbo' Feels About Five Years Out of Date

Directed by Jason Lei Howden

PUBLISHED Mar 4, 2020

We're all just slaves to our computers, man! It's like, we're all so plugged into the world wide web, we barely even talk to one another an...