Here is the latest Movie News from The Hollywood Reporter.
‘Blair Witch’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
James Allen McCune and Callie Hernandez head a new troop of young people once more equipped with cameras, looking for trouble in the woods where the ‘Blair Witch’ lives.
‘Afterimage’ (‘Powidoki’): Film Review | TIFF 2016
Polish maestro Andrzej Wajda pays tribute to an avant-garde artist who fell foul of stifling Stalinist rules in this Toronto world premiere.
‘(Re)Assignment’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Sigourney Weaver stars as a twisted surgeon and Michelle Rodriguez as the man she turns into a woman in Walter Hill’s ‘(Re)Assignment.’
‘Denial’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Rachel Weisz defends the Holocaust in a British court in the political drama co-starring Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson.
‘The Skyjacker’s Tale’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Safe for now in Cuba, Ishmael Muslim Ali admits to hijacking an American Airlines flight in 1984 (how could he not?) but still denies committing the murders that led to that crime.
‘Sing’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane and Scarlett Johansson are among the many stars lending their vocal cords to ‘Sing,’ an animated musical from the people who brought us ‘Despicable Me’ and ‘The Secret Life of Pets.’
‘Katie Says Goodbye’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Olivia Cooke, Christopher Abbott and Mary Steenburgen play desert dwellers in ‘Katie Says Goodbye,’ a debut feature premiering in Toronto’s Discovery section.
‘Transparent’ Season 3: TV Review | TIFF 2016
Jill Solloway’s treasure of a series about the extended family of a transgender retiree played by Jeffrey Tambor, ‘Transparent,’ returns for what promises to be an exceptional third season.
‘My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Comic book artist Dash Shaw moves into animation with ‘My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea,’ a satirical teen disaster movie whose voice cast features Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph, Lena Dunham and Susan Sarandon.
‘Voyage of Time: The Imax Experience’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Terrence Malick’s history of the universe flies by in under an hour on the giant Imax screen.
‘Clair Obscur’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Award-winning Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu brings another bold women’s drama to the screen in ‘Clair Obscur’.
‘Karl Marx City’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
East German-born director Petra Epperlein investigates her father’s secret life and mysterious death in this Toronto world premiere.
‘Pyromaniac’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Erik Skjoldbjaerg (director of the original Norwegian version of ‘Insomnia’) casts Trond Hjort Nilssen as a teenage fireman who also moonlights as an arsonist in new psychological thriller, ‘Pyromaniac.’
‘ARQ’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
In Tony Elliott’s ‘ARQ,’ the inventor of a time-travel machine dies and is reborn time and again in an effort to perfect his escape plan and still get the girl.
‘Barry’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Vikram Gandhi’s low-budget film details Barack Obama’s tumultuous first year at Columbia University.
‘Queen of Katwe’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
David Oyelowo and Lupita Nyong’o star with newcomer Madina Nalwanga in ‘Queen of Katwe,’ Mira Nair’s biopic of a Ugandan chess prodigy.
‘Lion’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Dev Patel plays a real-life figure separated from his family in central India at age five and reunited with them a quarter-century later in ‘Lion,’ an uplifting drama that also stars Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.
‘ARQ’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
In Tony Elliott’s ‘ARQ,’ the inventor of a time-travel machine dies and is reborn time and again in an effort to perfect his escape plan and still get the girl.
‘Mascots’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Christopher Guest of ‘This is Spinal Tap’ and ‘Best in Show’ fame explores the weird world of sports mascots in this Netflix-backed comedy, which premieres in Toronto today.
‘All I See Is You’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
What seems a perfect union between Blake Lively and Jason Clarke hits a rocky patch when her sight is restored after years of blindness in Marc Forster’s psychological thriller, ‘All I See Is You.’
‘Ole! Ole! Ole!: A Trip Across Latin America’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
The Rolling Stones live performance film provides an exhilarating fresh context that proves stimulating both to the musicians and the viewer and has more to offer than most of its kind, including an unexpected shot of emotion.
‘Carrie Pilby’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Bel Powley from ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ plays another troubled teen in ‘Carrie Pilby,’ an adaptation of Caren Lissner’s YA novel, co-starring Gabriel Byrne, Nathan Lane and Colin O’Donoghue.
‘Trespass Against Us’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
In ‘Trespass Against Us,’ Michael Fassbender and Brendan Gleeson represent two generations of a family that seems destined to be always running from the law.
Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried to Star in Drama ‘First Reformed’
Paul Schrader will direct the Arclight Films and Killer Films project.
‘REM’: Film Review | Venice 2016
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is the subject of the documentary ‘REM,’ directed by his son, Tomas Koolhaas.
‘Snowden’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Joseph Gordon-Levitt heads an all-star cast in Oliver Stone’s ‘Snowden,’ a version of the life of controversial whistleblower Edward Snowden.
‘A United Kingdom’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
David Oyelowo portrays African king Seretse Khama and Rosamund Pike his English wife in director Amma Asante’s political-romantic drama ‘A United Kingdom.’
‘Big Big World’ (‘Koca dunya’): Film Review | Venice 2016
Turkish filmmaker Reha Erdem’s ‘Big Big World’ is a thick Freudian soup of sibling love and parental denial, set mainly in the isolation of swampy woodland.
‘Colossal’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis rekindle an old friendship while giant monsters terrorize Seoul in ‘Colossal.’
‘American Pastoral’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Ewan McGregor stars alongside Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Connelly in his feature directorial debut, an adaptation of the Philip Roth novel about a man whose daughter grows up to become a terrorist.
‘The Disappointments Room’: Film Review
Kate Beckinsale returns to the horror genre in this story of a deserted house harboring dark secrets.
‘Before the Flood’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio travels the world exploring climate change in ‘Before the Flood.’
‘Gaza Surf Club’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
The youth of Gaza take to the waves in a documentary by Philip Gnadt and Mickey Yamine.
‘A Monster Calls’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
A boy worried for his cancer-stricken mother (Felicity Jones) is consoled by a giant tree (Liam Neeson) in ‘A Monster Calls,’ directed by J.A. Bayona (‘The Impossible’).
‘Singing in Graveyards’: Venice Review
Filipino rock legend Pepe Smith plays a washed-up musician angling for a comeback in Malaysian director Bradley Liew’s debut at Venice Critics’ Week.
‘These Days’ (‘Questi giorni’): Film Review | Venice 2016
Margherita Buy, the frequent muse of director Giuseppe Piccioni’s early films, appears in ‘These Days’ as the mother of one of four young women contemplating adulthood.
‘The Magnificent Seven’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Antoine Fuqua’s Toronto opener stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke in a revisionist take on 1960’s ‘Magnificent Seven,’ about a band of loners who defend a village from an outlaw gang.
‘King of the Belgians’: Film Review | Venice 2016
The latest film from Belgium-based directorial duo Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens (‘The Fifth Season’) is a mockumentary about a royal road trip.
‘Orphan’ (‘Orpheline’): Film Review | TIFF 2016
French director Arnaud des Pallieres’ latest, ‘Orphan,’ stars Adele Haenel, Gemma Arterton and Adele Exarchopoulos.
‘Guilty Men’ (‘Pariente’): Film Review | Venice 2016
Colombian drama-thriller hybrid ‘Guilty Men’ from director Ivan D. Gaona is not a guilty pleasure but just a pleasure.
‘Foreign Body’ (Corps etranger’): Film Review | TIFF 2016
Tunisian director Raja Amari reunites with Hiam Abbass, her star from ‘Red Satin,’ for her latest feature: ‘Foreign Body’.
‘Free Fire’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Brie Larson and Cillian Murphy come out with all guns blazing in Ben Wheatley’s latest carnival of carnage, a TIFF world premiere.
‘Boys in the Trees’: Film Review | Venice 2016
A childhood friendship severed by betrayal is renewed — or is it? — on Halloween in the Australian suburbs in Nicholas Verso’s collision of harsh reality, memory and dark fantasy.
‘The Giant’ (‘Jatten’): Film Review | TIFF 2016
A physically and mentally disabled man obsesses over the one thing he’s good at in ‘The Giant.’
‘The Sixth Beatle’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Sam Leach, who promoted The Beatles’ early concerts, makes the case that he is ‘The Sixth Beatle.’
‘I Am Not Madame Bovary’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Chinese director Feng Xiaogang reteams with star Fan Bingbing in the social satire ‘I Am Madame Bovary’.
‘The Giant’ (‘Jatten’): Film Review | TIFF 2016
A physically and mentally disabled man obsesses over the one thing he’s good at in ‘The Giant.’
‘The Sixth Beatle’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Sam Leach, who promoted The Beatles’ early concerts, makes the case that he is ‘The Sixth Beatle.’
‘Training Day’: THR’s 2001 Review
‘Boys in the Trees’: Film Review | Venice 2016
A childhood friendship severed by betrayal is renewed — or is it? — on Halloween in the Australian suburbs in Nicholas Verso’s collision of harsh reality, memory and dark fantasy.
‘Free Fire’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Brie Larson and Cillian Murphy come out with all guns blazing in Ben Wheatley’s latest carnival of carnage, a TIFF world premiere.
‘Happy Birthday’: Film Review
Two American tourists fall victim to Mexican kidnappers in Casey Tebo’s darkly comic thriller.
‘I Called Him Morgan’: Venice Review
The second feature documentary from Swedish-born director Kasper Collin (‘My Name Is Albert Ayler’) looks at another jazz luminary who died too soon: Lee Morgan.
‘Eternity’ (‘Eternite’): Film Review
A host of French stars topline this century-sweeping drama from Oscar-nominated Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung.
‘Dark Harvest’: Film Review
James Hutson plays a marijuana dealer whose operation is threatened by a murder investigation in this crime drama marking his directorial debut.
‘Planetarium’: Venice Review
Natalie Portman and Lily-Rose Depp play sisters touring 1930s France as mediums in Rebecca Zlotowski’s drama, which premiered out of competition at Venice.
‘Landfill Harmonic’: Film Review
Kids in a Paraguay slum find fame using musical instruments made of trash.
‘Singing in Graveyards’: Venice Review
Filipino rock legend Pepe Smith plays a washed-up musician angling for a comeback in Malaysian director Bradley Liew’s debut at Venice Critics’ Week.
‘These Days’ (‘Questi giorni’): Film Review | Venice 2016
Margherita Buy, the frequent muse of director Giuseppe Piccioni’s early films, appears in ‘These Days’ as the mother of one of four young women contemplating adulthood.
‘The Magnificent Seven’: Film Review | TIFF 2016
Antoine Fuqua’s Toronto opener stars Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt and Ethan Hawke in a revisionist take on 1960’s ‘Magnificent Seven,’ about a band of loners who defend a village from an outlaw gang.
‘King of the Belgians’: Film Review | Venice 2016
The latest film from Belgium-based directorial duo Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens (‘The Fifth Season’) is a mockumentary about a royal road trip.
‘Odd Job’ (‘Un Petit Boulot’): Film Review
Heartbreaker’ director Pascal Chaumeil, who passed away last August, brings back star Romain Duris (‘The Beat That My Heart Skipped’) for his final crime caper, ‘Odd Job.’
‘Orphan’ (‘Orpheline’): Film Review | TIFF 2016
French director Arnaud des Pallieres’ latest, ‘Orphan,’ stars Adele Haenel, Gemma Arterton and Adele Exarchopoulos.
‘Guilty Men’ (‘Pariente’): Film Review | Venice 2016
Colombian drama-thriller hybrid ‘Guilty Men’ from director Ivan D. Gaona is not a guilty pleasure but just a pleasure.
‘Foreign Body’ (Corps etranger’): Film Review | TIFF 2016
Tunisian director Raja Amari reunites with Hiam Abbass, her star from ‘Red Satin,’ for her latest feature: ‘Foreign Body’.
‘6 Love Stories’: Film Review
Michael Dunaway’s ensemble film features brief romantic vignettes involving six Los Angeles couples.
‘Jackie’: Venice Review
Natalie Portman plays the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy in the stunned aftermath of her husband’s assassination in Pablo Larrain’s first English-language feature.
‘Austerlitz’: Venice Review
The latest documentary from the much-acclaimed Sergei Loznitsa looks at visitors to the sites of former Nazi death camps.
‘Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey’: Venice Review
Terrence Malick describes the origins of the universe while Cate Blanchett questions the one who made it.
‘California Typewriter’: Telluride Review
Tom Hanks, Sam Shepard and other typewriter collectors and enthusiasts stand up for the ancient machine in this Telluride doc.
‘In Search of the American Dream’: Film Review
A Mexican famly goes on the lam to avoid being separated by the authorities in Baldemar Rodriguez’s indie film drama.
‘Blind Sun’: Film Review
Lebanese-born director Joyce A. Nashawati’s first feature will make its North American bow in Toronto’s Vanguard section.
‘The Bad Batch’: Venice Review
Writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour follows her Iranian vampire movie, ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night,’ by setting Suki Waterhouse adrift in a lawless land of cannibals, cult crazies, acid raves and Keanu Reeves.
‘The Eremites’ (‘Die Einsiedler’): Venice Review
The debut feature from Italian director Ronny Trocker is set in German-speaking South Tyrol and stars Austrian actor Andreas Lust (‘The Robber,’ ‘Revanche’).
‘Midnight Return: The Story of Billy Hayes and Turkey’: Deauville Review
The man behind the story of ‘Midnight Express’ returns to the country he escaped from and offers an apology to its people.
‘A Woman’s Life’ (‘Une Vie’): Venice Review
The latest film from French director Stephane Brize, whose ‘The Measure of a Man’ won the Cannes Best Actor Award in 2015, is an adaptation of Guy de Maupassant’s first novel.
‘White Sun’ (‘Seto Surya’): Venice Review
Deepak Rauniyar’s Nepalese drama premiered in the Horizons section of the world’s oldest film-festival.
‘Bridget Jones’s Baby’: Film Review
Renee Zellweger reprises her signature role as a single woman, this time facing the challenges of motherhood, unsure if Colin Firth or Patrick Dempsey is the father.
‘My Art’: Venice Review
Independent comedy-drama about a New York artist is a belated feature-film debut from prominent photographer Laurie Simmons, premiering in a sidebar at the Italian extravaganza.
‘David Lynch, The Art Life’: Venice Review
David Lynch recounts his strange life from childhood to ‘Eraserhead.’
‘The Dreamed Ones’ (‘Die Getraumten’): Film Review
A tormented love affair between two celebrated writers inspired this intimate literary docu-drama, which is set to screen at Toronto International Film Festival.
‘Through the Wall’ (‘Laavor et Hakir’): Venice Review
A spirited Orthodox woman takes marriage into her own hands in Rama Burshstein’s humorous follow-up to Fill the Void.
‘One More Time With Feeling’: Venice Review
Andrew Dominik’s black-and-white 3D documentary, a making-of companion to the new album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, premiered in Venice ahead of its one-night-only worldwide showing Sept. 8.
‘Piuma’ (‘Feather’): Venice Review
Two Roman high school kids and their families deal with an unwanted pregnancy in Roan Johnson’s comedy.
‘Into the Inferno’: Telluride Review
Prolific director Werner Herzog travels the world to turn his camera on some spectacular, destructive volcanoes.
‘The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography’: Telluride Review
Oscar-winning director Errol Morris turns his camera on a gifted photographer who specialized in large Polaroid pictures.
‘The Untamed’ (‘La region salvaje’): Venice Review
Mexican director Amat Escalate, who won the Cannes Best Director honors for his previous film, ‘Heli,’ explores misogyny and homophobia in his latest feature, which has a sci-fi twist.
‘Along for the Ride’: Venice Review
Filmmaker Nick Ebeling retraces the troubled birth of ‘The Last Movie’ and the professional exile and eventual re-emergence that followed for actor-director Dennis Hopper.
‘Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer’: Telluride Review
Richard Gere stars in Joseph Cedar’s portrait of a New York City operator who talks his way into Israeli politics.
‘Hacksaw Ridge’: Venice Review
Mel Gibson returns to directing after a decade-long absence with this true story starring Andrew Garfield as a non-violent American war hero who never fired a weapon.
‘The Age of Shadows’ (‘Miljeong’): Venice Review
South Korea’s Kim Jeewoon crafts a fast-moving period actioner set in 1920s Asia.
‘The Distinguished Citizen’ (‘El ciudadano ilustre’): Venice Review
Argentinean directorial duo Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s latest film stars Oscar Martinez (‘Paulina,’ ‘Wild Tales’) as a Nobel-winning author returning to his village of birth.
‘Spira Mirabilis’: Venice Review
An Italian feature documentary shot around the world examine man’s thirst for immortality and perfection.
‘Lost in Paris’: Telluride Review
Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel star in this small-scale comedy evocative of the comic traditions of Buster Keaton.
‘Mifune: The Last Samurai’: Telluride Review
Directors Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese are among those who pay tribute to celebrated Japanese actor Toshiro Mifune in this Telluride doc.
‘Heal the Living’ (‘Reparer les vivants’): Venice Review
The third feature from French writer-director Katell Quillévéré stars a who’s who of Francophone cinema, including Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners, Kool Shen, Alice Taglioni and Dominique Blanc.
‘Finding Oscar’: Telluride Review
This documentary, executive produced by Steven Spielberg, delves into the brutal history of Guatemala’s military regime in the early 1980s.
‘Home’: Venice Review
The latest film from Flemish director Fien Troch (‘Unspoken’) looks at the generation gap between teenagers and their parents.
‘Summertime’ (‘L’Estate addosso’): Venice Review
Director Gabriele Muccino retouches his Italian roots with this road movie that takes two mismatched Roman teens to San Francisco, New York and Cuba.
‘Safari’: Venice Review
Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl goes on vacation in Africa.
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