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EXCLUSIVE: Cord Jefferson’s feature directorial debut American Fiction is changing up its release plan, shifting from a November 3 limited opening to December 15. The MGM/MRC theatrical release, which stars Jeffrey Wright, Issa Rae, Sterling K. Brown, Tracee Ellis Ross and Skyler Wright and just…

Pop the cork and celebrate Haley Bennett in Widow Clicquot, a fast-paced and sexy biopic of the woman known as Madame “Veuve” Clicquot, or by her actual full name, Barbe Nicole Ponsardin-Clicquot, who triumphed over all odds to become the force that created…

UPDATED with latest: The Toronto Film Festival began September 7 in Ontario with opening-night movie The Boy and the Heron, from Oscar-winning filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki. It kicked off a lineup for the fest’s 48th edition that included world premieres of GameStop pic Dumb Money, Netflix's Pain Hustlers…

Backspot Section: Discovery Director: D.W. Waterson Story by D.W. Waterson /Script by Joanne Sarazen Logline: Riley, a mid-level cheerleader, is given an opportunity to cheer with the All-Star team Thunderhawks. With a competition looming, Riley must navigate her crippling anxiety, her…

Stamped From The Beginning  Section: TIFF Docs Director: Roger Ross Williams Writers: Adapted from Ibram X. Kendi’s book Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America  Logline: Williams' documentary adaptation uses an innovative animation process that…

American Fiction Section: Special Presentation / People's Choice Award Winner Director: Cord Jefferson  Writers: Cord Jefferson Logline: American Fiction is Cord Jefferson’s hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture's obsession with reducing people to outrageous…

The People’s Choice Award from the just-wrapped 2023 Toronto Film Festival has gone to Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction. First Runner-Up is Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. Second Runner-Up is Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron. The Documentary Award…

A new trend on the fall festival circuit this year is the biopic of the unknown hero, something that seems unthinkable now in the digital age. There's One Life, about the Schindler-like achievements of Nicholas Winton, who saved nearly 700 Jewish children…

ROYAL HOTEL Section: Gala Presentations Director: Kitty Green Screenwriter: Oscar Redding, Kitty Green Logline: Two American girls (Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick) run out of cash while backpacking around Australia. To get home, they take a job in a rowdy pub in a remote mining…

Watching Mountains, which just made its international debut as part of the Toronto Film Festival’s Centerpiece program, I could not help but think of two other landmark films it seems to recall in its own way. One was 2019’s The Last Black Man In San Francisc…

AGGRO DR1FT Section: Midnight Madness Director: Harmony Korine Screenwriter: Harmony Korine Logline: In a surreal, dystopian Miami, the world's greatest assassin is pursued by a demonic crime lord. U.S. Sales Agent: CAA Panelists: Harmony Korine (director) First Screening…

RUSTIN Section: Special Presentations Director: George C. Wolfe Screenwriter: Julian Breece, Dustin Lance Black Logline: In 1963, Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin (Colman Domingo) helps to organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, only to find himself marginalized by…