After a daring and impressive ninth album, Miley Cyrus rebrands by going back to basics with a boring, cliched release that’s often unpleasant to listen to.

We’ve listened closely to Kate Bush’s songs—all 146 of them—and in the weeks to come we’ll be working our way from the least successful to the most.

Primetime, through its structure and style, avoids typical biopic pitfalls. We are with Chris Hansen during his rise and potential fall, but Lance Oppenheim and Robert Pattinson don’t allow us to get ...

You Had to Be There is a fascinating documentary about the assembly of a theater troupe so significant it paved the way for the creation of Saturday Night Live and SCTV.

John Wilson’s The History of Concrete feels like a feature-length episode of How to with John Wilson; some might be disappointed by the similar formulaic material, but most will appreciate it for the ...

Padraic McKinley’s survival drama is a lean and mean throwback to films like Treasure of the Sierra Madre, but despite its tangible grit (and a great lead performance by Ethan Hawke), The Weight feels...

A skepticism hovers over the entire film, but if it’s not up to the level of the franchise debut, the latest Aardman feature tops 2016’s disappointing Farmageddon.

Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi’s Cannes prize-winning film reimagines Federico García Lorca’s unfinished play with an extravagant film about Spain’s history of political and homophobic persecution t...

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And his new novella is anything but sleepy

Keith's first dispatch from TIFF 2026 covers new work by major directors like Mike Leigh and Werner Herzog, as well as a gripping Lebanese heist movie.

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The Fix is commendable for encouraging a mass audience to reflect on the sanctioned violence we are asked to accept without investigating its motives or objecting to its deleterious effects on individ...

Stiffly directed with a script full of clichés, this film’s only salvation is a few sturdy and believable performances.

This awful rom-com should just kiss off into the air.

Polarizing even lifelong fans when it first opened in the summer of 1999, Kubrick’s final film is eerily prescient in retrospect, with fascinating details that linger in the mind.

Jane Schoenbrun’s latest spills over with visual references and sight gags lab-grown to delight gender studies majors and film addicts alike.

John Carpenter has released his first ever original graphic novel and an accompanying soundtrack, making CATHEDRAL a true gift for fans of the Horror Master’s work.

The latest Spider-Man film’s grounding in New York City adds a layer of realism and allows director Destin Daniel Cretton to play to his strengths as a chronicler of small but significant moments.

Even a casual spin of Baur Bentur reveals something rich, strange and fruitful coming into being.

Doug Campbell’s Backstabbed belongs to a contemporary strain of exploitation cinema that extrapolates upon societal taboos so shamelessly as to be strangely audacious; the film is inelegant, but unden...