Like the easily devoured paperback it’s based on, pulpy papal thriller Conclave has a brisk, page-turning allure, filled with juicy intrigue and mystery, a beach
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‘I’ve never seen the depth of moral corruption’: controversial Netanyahu doc screens at Toronto
Audiences got a look at Benjamin Netanyahu’s leaked police interrogation videos for the first time at last night’s world premiere of The Bibi Files. The
Reawakening review – thought-provoking drama as missing daughter returns ten years later
Novelist, short story writer and film-maker Virginia Gilbert has written and directed this carefully constructed, robustly performed drama, an intimate feature which in some ways
Fawzia Mirza and Amrit Kaur on The Queen of My Dreams: ‘People want to hear more queer Muslim stories’
‘I made the first iteration of The Queen of My Dreams before I even knew I was a film-maker,” says Fawzia Mirza of the many
In Camera review – young actor faces endless auditions in disorienting industry satire
A director is talking to a young British Asian actor. “You’re like the brown version of … what was his name again …?” By the
James Earl Jones was movie royalty, a magisterial star who inspired both love and respect | Peter Bradshaw
James Earl Jones, who has died aged 93, was a massively accomplished and distinguished African American star of the stage and screen, an Egot titan
How to Save a Dead Friend review – moving Russian anthem for doomed youth
At the age of 16, in 2005, Marusya Syroechkovskaya was already certain that she would die young. “Everyone knows Russia’s for the depressed,” she would
Boonie Bears: Time Twist review – Chinese animation takes kids’ series into sci-fi yarn
If you’re a card-carrying member of the substantial fanbase of the Chinese animated television series Boonie Bears, which has already spawned half a dozen feature
The Assessment review – Alicia Vikander is future parents’ worst nightmare
First-time feature director Fleur Fortuné comes to Toronto with a high-concept sci-fi of the old school. It’s a speculative and futurist contrivance that’s elegant, amusing,
Eden review – Ron Howard’s nasty, starry survival thriller falls over the edge
The films of Ron Howard – usually polite, Oscar-aiming true stories such as A Beautiful Mind or Apollo 13 or solidly made, anonymous IP blockbusters