TIFF Goes Virtual
Binge-watching the Toronto International Film Festival from home
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Author: Stephen Garrett
‘Mulan’: New and Improved
Disney’s Wuxia moment feels like a fresh start
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‘Bill and Ted Face the Music’: Neither Excellent Nor Bogus
Deeply stupid, deeply heartfelt
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Man Out of Brine
In ‘An American Pickle,’ Seth Rogen Struggles With Jewish Identity, and With Seth Rogen
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The Good Old Days of Quarantine
The pandemic short-film collection ‘Homemade’ will make you nostalgic for mid-April
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Run Silent, Not Too Deep
‘Greyhound’: Submarine Captain Tom Hanks’ latest tribute to The Greatest Generation
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One Degree of Kevin Bacon
‘You Should Have Left’ is a thinly-constructed haunted-house movie from Blumhouse
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‘Irresistible’: Jon Stewart Imagines a Semi-Normal Political System
Cynically optimistic, made before the current crisis
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‘You Don’t Nomi’ and the Cult of ‘Showgirls’
Documentary chronicles our obsession with a masterpiece of shit
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‘The King of Staten Island’ Haz a Sad
In the new Judd Apatow film, Pete Davidson plays a tattooed basket case whose firefighter dad died when he was a kid
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‘The High Note,’ more like a medium note
A shiny, modest melodrama about perfectly reasonable people
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‘The Lovebirds’: Hipster Creatives on the Lam
Easygoing chemistry floats a dumb caper comedy
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‘Capone’ Shits the Bed
A crazed scatological portrait of a gangster’s endgame
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‘Extraction’: Hemsworth Brings the Pain
Stern faces, grim action in the most-popular Netflix movie ever
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‘Planet of the Humans’ is a Reactionary Screed
The worst form of purity-test liberalism
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