‘Once Upon a Time in Harlem’ Review: The Greaves Family Mines the Archives to Showcase the Party of a Lifetime
50 years in the making, Once Upon a Time in Harlem captures an afternoon with some of the Harlem Renaissance’s most prominent figures as they reflect on one of America’s most significant cultural movements.
‘Barrio Triste’ Review: Bad Bunny Collaborator STILLZ Shifts From Music Videos to Experimental Cinema
After shooting music videos for the likes of Rosalía and serving as Bad Bunny’s creative director, multidisciplinary artist STILLZ has ventured into feature filmmaking for the first time with Barrio Triste, which hits digital streaming outlets on Friday, October 9.
TIFF Review: ‘The Diary of a Chambermaid’ Delivers Radu Jude’s Idiosyncratic Satire With a Surprising Dash of Tenderness
Loosely reworked from the 1900 French novel of the same name, Jude’s latest cinematic provocation features all of the cutting criticisms of the multifaceted powers at play in modern Romania we have come to appreciate in his work, albeit with a refreshingly gentler process that makes The Diary of a Chambermaid his most approachable movie to date.
TIFF Review: ‘Krux’ Explores the Darkest Corners of Wartime Germany
Brimming with palpable paranoia and channeling a deeply unsettling atmosphere to match, German filmmaker Tony Vahl’s feature debut examines one of her homeland’s most disturbing junctures: the final days of the Second World War.
‘Chronovisor’ Review: Conspiracy Theories and Art Cinema Merge to Deliver One of the Year’s Most Bewitching Debut Features
Simultaneously an atmospheric tribute to dark academia and an unsettling Vatican conspiracy thriller, Chronovisor is a wholly distinctive work that will spice up end-of-summer watchlists and likely become one of 2026’s most bewitching movies.
‘The Marching Band’ Review: A French Crowd-Pleaser That Never Misses a Beat
The Marching Band exists as a fully formed commercial hit that stands out as a luminous beacon of hope within a mainstream cinematic landscape that increasingly feels more akin to “content” than creativity.
‘Gypsy 83: The Director’s Cut’ Review: A Queer Cult Classic Brimming With Style But Bereft of Poignancy
Just in time to celebrate 25 years since its original release, writer/director Todd Stephens has re-cut and restored his sophomore feature Gypsy 83, incorporating an additional 40 minutes of footage and even more of the 1980s goth bangers that aided the film in becoming a cult queer classic in the first place.
KVIFF Review: Crystal Globe Winner ‘Fruit Gathering’ Is a Beguiling Portrait of Femininity in Contemporary Myanmar
The feature debut from Burmese writer/director Aung Phyoe, Fruit Gathering threads an intricate combination of characterization and cultural insight that culminates in a work wholly mesmerizing in its delicate subtleties.
KVIFF 2026 Review: ‘The Guest’ Is an Arresting Debut Feature About the Queasy Crossroads of Family Life
Danish filmmaker Mads Mengel’s directorial debut is in deep communication with many familiar chamberpiece family dramas that have come before it, while also confronting unexplored and emotional facets of family life that feel fresh and pertinent within the contemporary.
KVIFF 2026 Review: ‘Only Beautiful Things to Look At’ Reflects on the Challenges of Female Autonomy During the Socialist Era
Ivan Ostrochovský’s newest movie concentrates on the methods with which Roma women were coerced into sterilization procedures during the country’s Communist era and features an impressive acting debut from Simona Boledovičová.
‘Amrum’ Review: Childhood’s End During the Final Days of World War II
German-Turkish filmmaker Fatih Akin turns to more traditional fare with Amrum, made to honor the childhood memories of one of his most influential friends and mentors, the late Hark Bohm.
‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ Review: Chile’s Oscar Hopeful Is a Touching Queer Western
An unconventional coming-of-age story with splashes of Western tropes and queer compassion to spare, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo proves to be an assured debut from Diego Céspedes.
‘Little Trouble Girls’ Review: Catholicism and Coming-of-Age Clash in Slovenia’s Oscar Entry for Best International Feature
Urška Djukić's directorial debut aptly concentrates on the revelatory school trip of a sixteen-year-old Catholic schoolgirl, who struggles to disentangle the clashing feelings of a changing mind and body from her devout, up to this point, untested faith.
‘100 Nights of Hero’ Review: A Colorful, Zany Love Letter to Female Kinship
Starring the likes of Emma Corrin, Maika Monroe, Charli XCX, and Richard E. Grant, 100 Nights of Hero transports audiences to an offbeat alternate universe where women, all too similarly to our own world, toil to share their own stories under the constraints of male authority.
‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Directorial Debut Is a Demanding, Multi-Faceted Treasure
English actress Imogen Poots delivers her most moving performance in an opaque, if not faithful, adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s 2011 memoir of the same name.
‘Hamnet’ Review: Chloé Zhao’s Glorious Examination of the Precipice Between Life and Death
Zhao’s latest emotional powerhouse stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley as William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes, concentrating on the love they share and the tragedy their family faces in the aftermath of their son’s death, which would go on to inform the composition of Shakespeare’s most celebrated play.
‘The Ice Tower’ Review: A Frosty, Hitchcockian Spin on a Classic Fairytale
French filmmaker Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s 2025 Berlinale winner casts a wholly hypnotic spell through its explorations of obsession and belonging.
‘The Balconettes’ Review: Female Friendship Sizzles and Shines in Noémie Merlant’s Genre-Bending Second Feature
Merlant once again re-teams with Céline Sciamma (the film’s co-writer) to serve up an exceptionally feminist genre mashup centered around a trio of longtime girlfriends who rise against the men fighting to control them amid a midsummer heatwave in the South of France.
‘Diciannove’ Review: A Colorful, Kinetic, and Molto Italiano Coming-Of-Age Tale
Filled to the brim with clashing energies reflective of its youthful protagonist, Diciannove powerfully embodies the challenges we experience in the complex position between childhood and adulthood that most of us face at age nineteen.
‘Sleep’ Review: A Picturesque Family Is Woken by an Unseen Evil in Jason Lu’s Debut Horror Flick
Shifting between expectations and subversions of the horror genre, Lu's first-time feature might be scary enough to keep you awake tonight.