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Toronto Diary: Festival highlights from 'First Reformed' to 'Lady Bird'
Times film critic Justin Chang is keeping a regular diary over the course of seven days at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. He will be writing about the movies he’s seeing, the trends he’s observing and what it all means for an event that, along with the Venice and Telluride film festivals, marks the official kickoff of the fall movie season.
‘First...
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Toronto Diary: Festival highlights from 'First Reformed' to 'Lady Bird'
Times film critic Justin Chang is keeping a regular diary over the course of seven days at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. He will be writing about the movies he’s seeing, the trends he’s observing and what it all means for an event that,...
Does everybody love seeing Ray Romano get serious? He hopes so
Ray Romano was headed to New York. He had hair and makeup tests for a role as a mob lawyer in the upcoming Martin Scorsese film “The Irishman.” And, yeah, the thought of being in a movie that boasts legendary, Oscar-winning actors Al Pacino, Robert De...
Oscar buzz and movie love mingle at the Telluride film festival
The Telluride Film Festival prides itself on being unlike bigger, glitzier festivals. The atmosphere is decidedly low-key and intimate, with neither the deal-making frenzy of Sundance nor the black-tie glamour of Cannes. There are no red carpets, no...
Venice and Telluride festival roundup: Glory for Gerwig, some hard knocks for Clooney
Film festivals in Telluride and Venice are in full swing. What movies are earning the longest standing ovations? Let’s survey the field.
“Lady Bird”: “Moonlight” writer-director Barry Jenkins returned to Telluride to introduce indie actress Greta...
Here are the fall festival movie premieres that Oscar voters will be watching
Are we about to get our first look at the next Oscar best picture winner?The last five movies to take that award premiered at one of the three fall film festivals – Venice, Telluride and Toronto – now upon us.That could change this year as there are...
Oscar buzz to run high as the proudly low-key Telluride Film Festival gets underway
There will be no red carpets. No paparazzi. At 8,750 feet above sea level, even oxygen will be in relatively short supply.
But when the 44th Telluride Film Festival kicks off Friday, scores of filmmakers, stars and movie executives will make their...
Newcomer 'The Hitman's Bodyguard' leads the domestic box office
Cheap scares and violent crime seemed to resonate with audiences this weekend, with action and horror films coming out on top of the domestic box office. Meanwhile, “Logan Lucky,” the return of vaunted film director Steven Soderbergh, had a relatively...
Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds go on a lame, violent Eurotrip in 'The Hitman's Bodyguard'
After stumbling out of “The Hitman’s Bodyguard,” an insanely violent live-action cartoon starring Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds, I found myself asking the kind of question the critic is occasionally forced to ponder after too many years steeped in...
New video: 'Alien: Covenant' is one of the best of the 'Alien' franchise movies
New on Blu-ray
“Alien: Covenant” (20th Century Fox DVD, $29.98; Blu-ray, $34.99; 4K, $39.99; also available on VOD)
With “Alien: Covenant,” director Ridley Scott follows up his disappointing “Prometheus” with something much livelier, and continues...
Toronto 2017: Films by Darren Aronofsky, Angelina Jolie and Guillermo del Toro top a quality-over-quantity lineup
The Toronto International Film Festival will slim down its lineup this year by about 20%, hoping to remove some of the bloat that lately has made the festival a comprehensive but dizzying affair.
But if the quantity of the films has decreased, the...
Winston Churchill was larger than life and a perfect character for movies and TV
Eyes glaring, cigar aslant, Winston Churchill strode with fierceness through World War II, a leader of brash wit who sipped whiskey, wrote speeches in the bathtub and became one of the most towering and complex characters of the last century.
He had...
Heath Ledger's sister says it took blessing from Michelle Williams to get new documentary made
Heath Ledger’s arrival in Hollywood gave little indication he would become a transformational actor whose short career would leave such an indelible impression. Tall, blond and surf-buffed, just barely out of boyhood but already a TV star at home, Ledger...
John le Carré is writing a new novel featuring his famed spy George Smiley
John le Carré, the master of the Cold War thriller, is bringing back his most famous spy, George Smiley, in a new book.
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Ten movies we could be talking about at the 2018 Oscars
Over a dinner interview in November, “Moonlight” writer-director Barry Jenkins had a question of his own for me.
“How did you know?”
Jenkins wanted to learn why, back in March 2016, I put “Moonlight” on my list of “10 movies we might be talking...
'Split' leads box office for third week, tops 'Rings' and 'The Space Between Us'
For the third week in a row, Universal’s “Split” landed in the No. 1 box office spot, beating out new releases, Paramount’s “Rings,” STX Entertainment's “The Space Between Us” and Sony’s “The Comedian.” In fact, holdovers dominated on a relatively slow...
'Rings' takes top spot at Friday box office, with 'Split' a close second
Movie theaters might be expecting a slow Super Bowl weekend, but Paramount was seeing ring bling at the box Saturday morning.
The studio’s horror reboot “Rings” took the top spot at the box office on Friday, grossing $5.6 million. The franchise, about...
Martian melodrama 'The Space Between Us' crashes to Earth
There are movies about the wonders of space travel — a short list would include “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Solaris” and “Interstellar” — that seek to test the audience’s perceptual limits, altering our sense of time and place so as to usher us into the...