Blockbusters both new and old are now on 4K UHD from Universal, Warner Bros., and Sony.
Plus: ‘Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!,’ ‘Heart of the Beast,’ ‘Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries.’
The 2026 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival concluded last night, but our coverage has not. Look for additional reviews this week, which we will add to this post and update it more thoroughly next week. For now, here are our reviews (so far). Our Curtain Raiser, put together by our own Kurt Halfyard, got us off to a good start. Then the reviews started pouring in … Reviews by Kurt Halfyard: EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE HALF, Malayalam Vampires Throw Down the Beats, and Slay On the Beatings ANCHORS AWEIGH, Deadpan Profundity, With Sailing Metaphors LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, BRIAN MULRONEY BAD LIEUTENANT: TOKYO, Takashi Miike’s Fairy Tale of Redemption WILD HORSE NINE, All Flourish and No Feeling FURIES, A Sweaty Hellish Heist By Women…
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we discuss a duo of music videos by Olivia Wilde. Olivia Wilde might be known mostly as an actor. But after three films as a director that show a wide variety of styles and genres, it is clear she is the real deal of a good actor-turned-director, a feat which is still quite rare. You might think that her three films and two music videos don’t have a lot in common. One is a highschool-comedy, one is a scifi-thriller, one is a razorsharp black comedy set in one room and the music videos are a skating-video and a dance-choreography shot on a phone. You would be…
Opening with one of the most pleasurable and ambient scenes of 2026, Everything Else Is Noise announces its intentions immediately. Gridlocked traffic in a Mexico City intersection struggles to move and to find space in a complex interactive dance, while we listen to someone warming up the bow-on-strings of a cello. Nicolás Pereda’s latest exquisitely calibrated comedy of manners devotes a sizeable amount of its slim (but typical for this director) 71-minute runtime to let this scene play out in all its anticipatory banality before introducing us to its lead character. Teresa (Teresita Sánchez) is a composer who has lent out her apartment to a fellow female composer for a television documentary interview that morning. Her neighbour first comes up to complain about the cello…
Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider lead Oscar-winner Arthur Harari’s mind-bending thriller.
A few minutes into Sarah Arnold’s debut film Too Many Beasts I was wondering if the booklet of Vlissingen’s Film by the Sea Festival had been misprinted. A comedy? This? Judging from the gore, lighting, music and ehm… bodycount, I was still deciding whether this was going to be a creature feature or a serial killer thriller. And the next few minutes didn’t exactly make things easier, with our protagonist being a decidedly unsympathetic mentally broken policeman drunkenly stalking his ex. But as the narrative starts to develop, the fun starts too, just when you as a viewer catch on to what the hell is happening. We follow Fulda, who starts working in a rural village on the French mainland. Demoted after a violent incident…
With Union Town, master documentarian Barbara Kopple completes a trilogy she began with the Oscar winning documentaries Harlan County, U.S.A. (1976) and American Dream (1990). From the coal mines of Kentucky to the factories of the Midwest, Kopple shifts her focus to New York City, a so-called ‘union town’. Her intensive investigation of class struggle becomes a sharp callback to ancient times, when the lower class was robbed of their humanity by their unending servitude. Kopple’s formidable persistence in her mission once again exposes the endless courage of the human spirit. Deeply invested in presenting raw, empathic stories of the unsung workers who toil to keep the American economy running, here she profiles crucial labour battles as they unfold. They involve workers from UPS and Amazon, as well as…
Somewhere in the vast open spaces of the Rajasthan Desert in Northwestern India, there is a highly organized group of bandits operating a well-oiled machine of hijacking, car-stripping, electronics and jewellery fencing. The local cops are in their pocket, and they even have an onsite crematorium for getting rid of the bodies. One fine and sunny day, they try their usual business of a pair of vampire fraternal twins who happen to be passing through in their white Chevrolet Cruz. Violent, bloody and quite imaginative mayhem ensues as it is a showdown between bandits versus vampires. That is about it. And that is about all there needs to be. It’s a stylish genre mash-up of vampire, martial arts action, Western, Mad Max vehicular bedlam,…