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. Editors note: This review was originally published September 11, 2022 after its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. It opens in theaters today. For questionable reasons, some very talented people got it into…

Editors note: This review was originally published after Chevalier’s world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival on September 20, 2022. It opens in theaters today. Chevalier is a biopic about violin virtuoso Joseph Bolonge Chevalier de Saint-Georges…

UPDATED, 1:04 p.m.: Disney’s Onyx Collective has announced that its first narrative feature Bruiser, starring Jalyn Hall (Till) and 2023 Independent Spirit Award nominee Trevante Rhodes (Mike), will premiere on Hulu on February 24, 2023. The film which hit theaters on December 2nd will stream exclusively on…

Apple Original Films and A24 have dropped the trailer for Causeway, the movie from first-time filmmaker Lila Neugebauer that stars Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry and just had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival. The streamer, coming off its Oscar Best Picture winner CODA, is…

Nothing has illustrated the current turmoil in British politics quite as starkly as the recent tanking of the pound against the dollar, a puzzle even to the ruling party whose prime minister and chancellor caused it. Richard Eyre's fitfully funny Allelujah reflects this schism in more ways than one…

EXCLUSIVE: Joseph Amenta, whose debut feature Soft just had its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, has signed with M88 for representation. Soft revolves around three adolescent queer friends (played by Matteus Lunot, Zion Matheson and Harlow Joy) who become enraptured in the Toronto nightlife scene over a…

Ben Kingsley shows a different side to his screen persona with his performance in Dalíland, in which he plays the mercurial Surrealist artist in the last decade or so of his life. When he came to Deadline's TIFF studio, the actor praised his young co-star Christopher Briney, who plays James, a young Manhattan gallery…

Director Mary Harron brought first-time actor Christopher Briney into Deadline's TIFF Studio to discuss Dalíland, a film that explores the final stretch of the Surrealist art superstar Salvador Dalí's life, leading up to his death in 1984. As Harron explained, "It shows the last years of Dalí and his wife Gala's crazy…

UPDATED, 9:45 AM with Steven Spielberg statement: Here is Steven Spielberg’s full statement upon winning the Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice award for The Fabelmans. "As I said on stage the other night, 'Above all, I'm glad I brought this film to Toronto!.'  This is the most personal film I've ever made…

As the Toronto Film Festival comes to its official closing night we say goodbye to the re-energized fest for another year, but not before we say “Hello Dali,” or actually the final world premiere of the festival, Daliland, which picks up the celebrated artist’s life in its later years focusing on the odd relationship…

Director Tearepa Kahi came to Deadline's TIFF studio with actors Cliff Curtis and Jay Ryan to discuss their new film Muru, a provocative thriller set in the Ruatoki Valley in the Tūhoe region of New Zealand. Inspired by a true story, Kahi's film is presented as a "response" to, rather than a reconstruction of, that…

Georges Bizet's opera Carmen has been through many cinematic iterations — Carlos Saura turned it into a flamenco spectacular, while the late Jean-Luc Godard somehow managed to come up with an existential thriller — but Benjamin Millepied's reimagining might be the most original take on it yet. "It's about a woman…