Reviewed on September 14th at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival (51st edition) – Special Presentations. 109 Minutes.

Reviewed on September 11th at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival (51st edition) – Discovery. 105 Minutes.

There are familiar mechanisms at work in Back to Buenos Aires which bear comparison to Ariel Dorfman’s play Death and the ...

Reviewed on September 13th at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival (51st edition) – Special Presentations. 105 Minutes.

It makes for compelling cinema but reaches the limit of where it can psychologically move towards. It all begins quite innocently enough. An old dirt bike is pulled out from the cobwebs and wishes ...

It’s perhaps fortuitous for Lance Oppenheim’s narrative debut Primetime, which charts the brief but meteoric run of Chris Hansen’s exploitative hit television series To Catch a Predator in 2006, ...

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from ...

Only four features into her career, Justine Triet has already emerged as one of the defining voices of contemporary French cinema. Winning the Palme d’Or certainly accelerated that ascent, but her ...

Dually exploring the construction of an image and of a brand, the story of Gerda Taro is inseparable from the creation of “Robert Capa,” the Americanized persona adopted by Hungarian photographer ...

“In the end, we’ll all become stories,” per Margaret Atwood, a sentiment which is ultimately at the metatextual heart of Agata the Writer, the sophomore narrative feature from Kuba Dorabialski. Born ...

Working with themes of migration, loneliness, abandonment and the need for connection, among the feature debuts programmed in this year’s Orizzonti competition line-up we find House of the Wind (La ...

Those left behind to pick up the pieces are rarely the center of film dramas — and they’re rarely an afterthought either. Adopted, in love, surrounded by friends and moving between Rome’s outskirts ...