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I Play Rocky review: Glossy and safe Stallone biopic doesn't go the distance

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I Play Rocky | Flipboard

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What Caleb Williams told 10-year-old podcasters Jimmy V and Hen Dawg at their first Bears game It was a dream come true for viral kid podcasters Jimmy V and Hen-Dawg, who got to meet Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams before and after his …
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Wild Horse Nine Review: John Malkovich reminds everyone he is a generational talent

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Godzilla Minus Zero review: Bow before the power of the king of all kaiju epics

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How Godzilla Minus Zero's Takashi Yamazaki super-sized his new monster mash

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Three decades later in Vancouver, a landmark moment for Asian cinema gets its full-circle moment

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Patrick Stewart was nobility personified, leaving two cultural empires that will live long and prosper

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At Windsor's film festival, a couple wise guys reveal how they uncovered Scorsese's secrets

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‘The action is the juice': Why we're living in the golden age of Michael Mann's Heat

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You can see everything these days, but The Eyes of Ghana is a one-night-only opportunity

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‘I'm an exile from the 20th century': How Paweł Pawlikowski brought Fatherland's postwar past to life

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Fatherland review: Sandra Hülller offers brisk but rich tour through postwar German psyche

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The Only Living Pickpocket in New York review: John Turturro steals the show

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Ali G: Who Iz I? movie review: Laugh-free sequel represents a stunning career crash

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Possible Love review: Netflix's beguiling South Korean epic is the slow-burn drama of the season

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A Talent for Murder review: Alden Ehrenreich, Helen Mirren star in flat Ripley thriller

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Clayface movie review: Gross DC Comics thriller is no play but lots of d'oh

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Klara and the Sun movie review: Dire and robotic adaptation short-circuits legacy of Kazuo Ishiguro

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Wicker review: Olivia Colman swears like it's going out of style in an enjoyably raunchy fantasy romcom

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La Bola Negra movie review: Netflix's epic Oscar hopeful takes a big swing, and misses

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Need help decoding Nathan Fielder's You Can See Everything? Start with this cultural syllabus

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You Can See Everything review: Nathan Fielder delivers the best, most essential movie of the year

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Whalefall review: Austin Abrams is a real-life Pinocchio in gooey horror flick

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Sense and Sensibility review: The art of a satisfying Jane Austen adaptation

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Review: Riveting Palme d'Or-winning drama Fjord will twist you into a never-ending knot

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Film festival favourite Cristian Mungiu is ready for the Fjord wars

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‘We don't want to do a rinse and repeat': Where TIFF's big-bet market goes from here

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The Social Reckoning review: Aaron Sorkin's dreadful Facebook follow-up should be de-friended

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Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother Review: Mahershala Ali's fatal father knows best

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Live by the Blade, die by the Blade: How Mahershala Ali and Bassam Tariq carved their own action-movie path

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Canadian pioneer drama A Breed Apart is a tough, sparkling gem of a movie

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Beware Boiúna review: Mike P. Nelson's giant-snake thriller is a case of truth in advertising

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NAZA review: Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's documentary decodes Israel's war machine

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Digger review: Tom Cruise gets buried alive in this obnoxious satire

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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! movie review: The best Sundance movie that 2004 never delivered

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Hilarious and profound The History of Concrete cements John Wilson's cinematic reputation

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Primetime's Robert Pattinson delivers the performance of the year in sharp, sickening media satire

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‘This goes way beyond Chris Hansen': How Primetime's Lance Oppenheim turned the tables on trash TV

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TIFF 2026 exposed festival's stellar cinematic taste, and worst institutional instincts

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TIFF 2026: The best (The Debut!), worst (smelly cinemas!) and weirdest (Trudeau?) film festival moments

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8 hours ago NPR has lost one of its finest journalists. For 15 years, Rose Friedman was an editor and reporter who helped shape NPR's arts and cultural coverage. She was one of the co-creators of the popular Books We Love reading guide and, most recently, helped lead NPR's America 250 series. Friedman died at …
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Ten new movies that will make the odyssey to the theatre worth it this fall

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Resident Evil review: This reboot is as funny as it is disgusting, and that's a good thing

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TIFF 2026: The team behind Tenzing climbs a different cliff of Mount Everest cinema

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At Halifax's Atlantic International Film Festival, opening night mixes tragedy and hope

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At TIFF, and in Washington, Quebec's film industry finds itself in the hot seat

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Ottawa must be smarter about how it supports Canadian film and TV industry, Miller says

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Curry Barker, the obsession of Hollywood, returns to TIFF for film festival victory lap

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TIFF 2026: Opening night delivers odd dose of America for this era of Canadian cultural sovereignty

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With four premieres, Canadian actor Joe Cobden might be TIFF's stealth MVP

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Car-culture hero Sung Kang revs up TIFF with Drifter, an existential answer to Fast & Furious

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