More please: Arnow’s comedic auto-portrait of a woman adrift in New York City is a moving exploration of romantic and existential indecision, sexual self-expression, humiliation, and the uses of first-person experience in storytelling
Imitation of life: Todd Haynes’s latest, which opens this year's NYFF, rips a tale from the tabloid headlines and turns it into a modern melodrama of desire, deception, and delusion
Out of the blue: highlights from this year’s TIFF include Miko Revereza’s Nowhere Near, Atom Egoyan’s return to form Seven Veils, the murder mystery Reptile, and more
Garden of forking paths: Yui Kiyohara’s latest follows the intersecting paths of three women, in the process painting a portrait of their town as a ruin in the making
Another green world: this year’s edition was refocused on ambitious, idiosyncratic, and auteur-driven films like Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, Harmony Korine’s AGGRO DR1FT, and Bertand Bonello’s The Beast
What more do you want? Local critics Saffron Maeve and Adam Nayman join to discuss new films from Atom Egoyan, Cord Jefferson, Pedro Almodóvar, Bertrand Bonello, and more
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