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TIFF

You Won’t Watch John Candy Movies the Same Way After Colin Hanks’ New Doc

Ahead of the TIFF opening night world premiere of “John Candy: I Like Me,” filmmaker Hanks tells IndieWire about the challenges of making a doc about someone universally beloved.

By Mike Ryan

IndieWire's Alison Foreman at a special treadmill screening of 'The Long Walk' at Culver Theater in Los Angeles

Walk or Die

I Survived ‘The Long Walk’ Treadmill Challenge — What 5 Miles with the New Stephen King Classic Felt Like

By Alison Foreman

TIFF

‘Erupcja’ Review: Charli xcx Ditches Her Boyfriend for a Polish Girl in Light and Breezy Movie

By David Ehrlich

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TIFF

‘Charlie Harper’ Review: Sincerity Cancels Out the Cliches in a Cyclical Story of Doomed Love

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Venice

‘Scarlet’ Review: ‘Belle’ Director Mamoru Hosoda Returns with a Bloody Anime ‘Hamlet’ that Has Nothing to Say

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Fall Festivals

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BIARRITZ, FRANCE - JULY 01: Chandler Levack attends the closing ceremony during the 1st "Nouvelles vagues" International Biarritz Film Festival on July 01, 2023 in Biarritz, France. (Photo by Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images)

TIFF

We Want Filmmaker Chandler Levack to Be Our New Best Friend — Her ‘Mile End Kicks’ Shows Why

Telluride

For Zoey Deutch, It’s an Obvious Connection Between Godard and Linklater

Telluride

The Talk of Telluride Is Jesse Plemons’ Performance in ‘Bugonia’

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 06: Director Gus Van Sant attends the Directors Series: Gus Van Sant with Vito Schnabel during the 2024 Tribeca Festival at Spring Studios on June 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival)

Venice

Gus Van Sant on the Luigi Mangione Link to His Hostage Thriller ‘Dead Man’s Wire’

On the Lido at the Venice Film Festival

Say ciao to the first of the fall’s biggest fests.

Venice

Who Could Win the Golden Lion? The Strongest Venice Film Festival Contenders So Far

Venice

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ Review: A Tender and Devastating Elegy

Venice

‘A House of Dynamite’ Review: Kathryn Bigelow’s Gripping and Hopeless Nuclear Missile Thriller

Venice

‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: Dwayne Johnson in Benny Safdie’s Endearing MMA Biopic

A Late Summer Spike in TV Land

The waning days of summer don’t always mean good TV. That’s not true this year.

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Take the Ride

‘Task’ Review: Mark Ruffalo and Tom Pelphrey’s Kindhearted HBO Crime Drama Will Bring You to Tears

Come Hell (and High Water)

Spike Lee’s Return to Katrina Is a Poignant Prayer for a Brighter Future

Interview

A Family Portrait from the Creator of ‘BoJack Horseman’? Welcome to ‘Long Story Short’

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TV Review

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Film and TV Reviews

Film Review

‘Caught Stealing’ Review: It’s a Swing and a Miss for Darren Aronofsky

Aronofsky’s wild pitch of a film attempts to capture the energy and unpredictability of the Charlie Huston book it’s based on, with mixed results.

By Kate Erbland

'Long Story Short' cast includes Ben Feldman as Avi Schwooper, Abbi Jacobson as Shira Schwooper and Nicole Byer as Kendra

Tv review

‘Long Story Short’ Review: Raphael Bob-Waksberg’s Time-Hopping, Tender Knockout

By Ben Travers

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Film review

‘The Roses’ Review: Cumberbatch and Colman Sand Down the Sharper Points of a Classic Satire

By Kate Erbland

'Peacemaker' Season 2 stars John Cena as Chris Smith, and Danielle Brooks as Leota Adebayo

TV review

‘Peacemaker’ Review: Season 2 Tells a Smaller Story with Bigger Emotions

By Ben Travers

Meet Your Emmy Nominees

Adolescence, the Netflix series, stars Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller and Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller, shown here sitting next to each other in an interview room, crying

Awards

How Many Emmys Should ‘Adolescence’ Actually Win?

It’s not its category’s leader in nominations, but Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s dour and in-demand limited series has the momentum to dominate Emmy night — should it?

By Ben Travers

BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY, Renee Zellweger, 2025. ph: Jay Maidment / © Universal Pictures / Courtesy Everett Collection

It’s a Hit

‘Bridget Jones 4’ Was Streaming-Only in the U.S., but Test Screenings Proved It Could Succeed

By Kate Erbland

MY FAVORITE SCENE

Liked Sam Rockwell’s ‘The White Lotus’ Monologue? Thank ‘Apocalypse Now’

By Marcus Jones

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Thompson on Hollywood

Netflix Phenomenon ‘Adolescence’ Demanded That Co-Creator Jack Thorne ‘Write the Impossible’

By Anne Thompson

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Interview

Michelle Yeoh Tells Us Why ‘Ne Zha 2’ Needed a Dub

Yeoh spoke to IndieWire about signing on to play Lady Yin in the A24-released English dub of the popular Chinese animated film.

By Wilson Chapman

Filmmaker Interview

‘The Toxic Avenger’ Could Have Gone the Way of ‘Batgirl’ — Now, It Might Be ‘Terrifier’-Sized Hit

By Kate Erbland

Thompson on Hollywood

Spike Lee’s ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Reinvents Kurosawa in the Canyons and Subways of New York

By Anne Thompson

THE LEGEND OF BILLIE JEAN, Helen Slater, 1985. ©TriStar Pictures/courtesy Everett Collection

Anniversaries

Why ‘The Legend of Billie Jean’ Is Still Invincible, 40 Years Later

By Mike Ryan

Top of the Line

Milchek (Trammel Tillman) conducting a marching band in Season 2 of 'Severance'

Sounds Good

The Best TV Scores of the Year, According to Our Composers Survey

By Sarah Shachat

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Join the Dark Side

The Force Can Be with You — for 1 to 3 Million Dollars

By Sarah Shachat

Finding the Spark

‘Chief of War’ Demonstrates the Fine Art of Lighting Things on Fire

By Sarah Shachat

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Ready. Set. Go.

How the Production Design of ‘Alien: Earth’ Wrecks the Future

By Daron James

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Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos' BUGONIA, a Focus Features release.
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Screen Talk: Digging Into This Year’s Telluride Lineup, from ‘Hamnet’ to ‘Bugonia’ and More

By Anne Thompson, David Ehrlich

Screen Talk: ‘Splitsville’ Creators Michael Covino and Kyle Marvin on ‘Splitsville’

By Anne Thompson

NEW JACK CITY, Russell Wong, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, Ice-T, 1991, (c)Warner Bros./courtesy Everett Collection

Filmmaker Toolkit: Mario Van Peebles on Creating a Gangster Classic with ‘New Jack City’

By Jim Hemphill

Filmmaker Toolkit: How ‘Will & Harper’ Captured Its Protagonist’s POV

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Videos

‘SNL’ Cast and Crew on ‘Weird Dance’ It Takes to Make Each Show Happen

Cast member Chloe Fineman, director Liz Patrick, Hair Department Head Jodi Mancuso, and Makeup Department Head Louie Zakarian talk to IndieWire about the everyday challenges of working on NBC’s late night staple.