REVIEW: Gus Van Sant's Restless Is Sweet, If Feather-Light
Restless is so fluttering and tender, so guileless, that you almost can't believe it was made by an grizzled old hand like Gus Van Sant. Then again, maybe you can…
REVIEW: Ryan Gosling Is the Goslingest in Superb, '70s-Inflected Drive
Some actors are chameleons, shifting drastically from one color to another depending on the role. Ryan Gosling may not be one of them: There will always be a little Ryan…
Letter from Toronto: Michael Winterbottom Takes Hardy to India with Trishna (and More)
Michael Winterbottom makes so many movies that some of them creep into festivals very quietly and, just as quietly, creep out, never to be seen again. That wasn't the…
Letter from Toronto: Friends with Kids Falters in the End, But Does Right By Adam Scott
Jennifer Westfeldt's sort-of romantic comedy Friends with Kids is on to something, even if in the end it suffers from a failure of nerve. This is actor and screenwriter…
Letter from Toronto: Hysteria Hums Along; Albert Nobbs Drops the Tea Tray
A tribute to vibrators and the women who love them, Tanya Wexler's Hysteria is a jaunty little entertainment that's almost plowed under by its early-suffragette…
Letter from Toronto: Coppola's Twixt Is Stubborn Old-Coot Filmmaking; Stillman's Damsels Hardly Dazzles
Francis Ford Coppola's Twixt is kind of stupid and kind of amazing, a horror movie-fairytale hybrid with an inscrutable plot, some gorgeous images and two brief sections…
Letter from Toronto: Woody Harrelson Disarms in Rampart; Sokurov Gets Wiggy with Faust
Occasionally, a movie is more interesting for where it doesn't go than for where it does. Oren Moverman's Rampart, starring Woody Harrelson as a disgraced (and obviously…
Letter From Toronto: Descendants Overloaded with Calculation; Take Shelter Overloaded with Michael Shannon
Alexander Payne's The Descendants has just about everything you need for a male midlife-crisis movie, and more: A big plot of unspoiled family land about to be sold off…
Letter From Toronto: Even Killer Elite Can't Quite Outduel Emmerich's Anonymous
The Toronto Film Festival is a world away from Venice, and the difference is especially acute when you hop from one to the other: Toronto is big and glossy, while Venice…
Postcard from Venice: Time to Say Goodbye, But First: Could Polanski Win a Golden Lion?
Venice is a city of lions. There's the ubiquitous winged lion, the symbol of Saint Mark, seen everywhere in statuary and on banners. Last night, outside the Casino, one…
Postcard from Venice: Andrea Arnold Gives Us the First Black Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights
Two hours after seeing Andrea Arnold's Wuthering Heights, screening here in competition, I'm still fighting my way across this rugged moor of a movie, a vast, wild place…
Postcard from Venice: Tinker, Tailor Is a Rich, Muted Delight; Solondz's Dark Horse Is Charmless
I'm not sure about the other European critics, but so far the U.K. critics here seem to love one picture above all others: Tomas Alfredson's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier…
Postcard from Venice: Fassbender Brings Glory to Shame; Pacino Reigns in Wilde Salome
When Steve McQueen's Hunger debuted at Cannes in 2008, Michael Fassbender -- playing Irish hunger-strike activist Bobby Sands -- was a revelation. Now he's ubiquitous…
Postcard from Venice: Soderbergh's Contagion — Catch the Fever! But Try Chicken with Plums at Your Own Risk
After the freshness and deceptive simplicity of their debut, the 2007 animated feature Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud's Poulet aux Prunes -- or…
Postcard from Venice: Freud and Jung Duke It Out in Dangerous Method; Louis Garrel's Latest Flatlines
David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, screening here at the festival in competition, is probably the most fun you'll ever have watching a movie about Carl Jung and…
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