Toronto film festival 2018
Kate Beckinsale on her role in Farming: 'If the parent is 100% evil, it's almost less damaging'
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s first, autobiographical film is a fractured love story between mother and adopted son. He explains why he chose Beckinsale to play the emotionally abusive woman to whom his parents ‘farmed’ him out as a child
Benjamin Lee
28, Sep, 2018 @11:00 AM
Green Book tipped for Oscars after picking up top award at Toronto
Feelgood movie starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen scoops the festival’s People’s Choice prize
Andrew Pulver
17, Sep, 2018 @1:36 PM
Toronto 2018 roundup: popcorn, syrup and a convict in space
While Steve McQueen and Barry Jenkins led the hype for Oscars, it was veteran director Claire Denis’s bizarre sci-fi High Life that really caught the eye
Simran Hans
15, Sep, 2018 @3:00 PM
Enter the Destroyer: the rise of the feminist detective
Two new films aim to break the cinematic dominance of the male cop, whose taciturn, violence-prone profiles have been off limits to women for decades
Elena Lazic
14, Sep, 2018 @3:09 PM
Natalie Portman: 'It's dangerous when you can't separate the emotion from the business'
The actor, director and activist returns with two films that show the devastating effects of fame on young stars. She explains how she escaped a similar fate
Gwilym Mumford
13, Sep, 2018 @4:25 PM
The Land of Steady Habits review – smart, sad Netflix tale of midlife crisis
In Nicole Holofcener’s sixth feature, adapted from Ted Thompson’s 2014 novel, a man’s midlife crisis is rendered with tragicomic sincerity
Jake Nevins
13, Sep, 2018 @3:15 AM
Hold the Dark review – Netflix chiller aims high, lands somewhere in middle
Alaska-set genre-hopping saga from the director of Green Room and Blue Ruin boasts effective set pieces but buckles under the weight of ambition
Benjamin Lee
13, Sep, 2018 @2:00 AM
Boy Erased review – plodding gay conversion drama lacks power
Strong performances from Lucas Hedges and Nicole Kidman aren’t enough to bring a disappointingly pedestrian tale to life
Benjamin Lee
12, Sep, 2018 @9:43 PM
Red Joan review – Judi Dench's 'granny spy' brings OAP to the KGB
Dench is a pensioner pulled up for her wartime sympathies in a stodgy espionage drama that can’t disguise its mediocrity
Pamela Hutchinson
12, Sep, 2018 @1:32 PM
The Old Man and the Gun review – Redford radiates swagger and class
The film feels like a homage to Redford, who will surely earn a final best actor Oscar nomination for his performance
Gwilym Mumford
12, Sep, 2018 @12:36 PM
Green Book review – charming deep south road trip is worth taking
Strong performances from Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali highlight a broadly entertaining crowd-pleaser about racial division in the 1960s
Benjamin Lee
12, Sep, 2018 @12:13 AM
Destroyer review – Nicole Kidman transforms for bitter noir dirge
The Oscar winner takes on the role of a tortured detective in a grimy LA-set thriller that skirts around intriguing ideas but fails to pack a punch
Benjamin Lee
11, Sep, 2018 @9:15 PM
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