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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Filmmaker and photographer Tala Hadid immersed herself in the rugged, fraternal world of a group of horse-riders in central Morocco for this visually rapturous work that merges portraiture and ...

Known for working in themes of emotional or physical isolation featuring pockets of people (sometimes ordinary Austrians) with his fiction and docu film POVs looking at hidden obsessions, hypocrisies, ...

Son of acclaimed Temur Babluani, Georgian-French filmmaker Géla Babluani blasted out of the gates when his feature debut 13 Tzameti traveled to the Venice Film Festival winning Luigi De Laurentiis ...

Saturday Night Live funnyman Bill Hader made the gradual move into feature films (his best work might be 2014’s The Skeleton Twins) and other television projects such as bits on Documentary Now! bits ...

Next week we will know the line ups for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as the 41st International Critics’ Week picks and 23rd Giornate degli Autori selections. Typically landing ...