Toronto International Film Festival

The new Tonya Harding biopic is bound to be controversial for its satirical approach, but Sebastian Stan explains why comedy was essential for the Harding-Kerrigan story.

What should be a biographical film’s best moment is quickly becoming its worst and most tired trope.

There’s a little bit of everything in the latest from Guillermo del Toro. The Shape of Water is part fairy tale, part monster movie, part love story, and part horror thriller. The filmmaker even finds room to squeeze in some nasty bits of gore and a dazzling classic Hollywood musical number. It may sound like none of that could work in one movie, but del Toro melds the many genre elements of his sublime fantasy into a loving ode to cinema. It’s a heartbreaking love story about loneliness and the transcendent power of language, and it’s simply magical.

James Franco plays Tommy Wiseau in this hilarious and touching comedy about the making of the cult classic film ‘The Room.’

Imagine Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, only said shrinkage was of your own volition. You could willingly decide to become a miniature version of yourself, but why would any sane person do that? The selling point of such a bizarre life-changing experience is that as five-inch-tall human, you would literally use less resources, and thus all of your daily necessities and luxuries would cost next to nothing. If you never could afford living in a lavish mansion, now you can. If you always wanted a diamond bracelet or a yacht, now you could buy one for a fraction of the price. And hey, you’re helping the environment too! That’s the idea at the center of Alexander Payne’s Downsizing. This dark satire, directed by Payne (Nebraska, Sideways) and co-written by him and Jim Taylor, has the deceptive appearance of a quirky Charlie Kaufman-like sci-fi political tale, but it wastes its brilliant concept on a misguided, uninteresting story about a character you couldn’t care less about.

Margot Robbie is outstanding as Tonya Harding in this hilarious and sympathetic portrait of the scorned figure skater.

The writer and director of the most shocking biopic of the fall tells us about the secret history of Wonder Woman and how to shoot sex scenes.

Jim Carrey revealed that he turned down Jonze as the director for the ‘Ace Ventura’ sequel - and always regretted it.

In this pitch-black comic thriller, Frances McDormand plays a woman who pushes her small-town sheriff to solve her daughter’s murder.

It would be an understatement to call Darren Aronofsky’s mother! simply crazy. This movie is a balls-to-the-wall bonkers nightmare that feels like diving head-first through the fiery pits of hell. It more than earns its titular exclamation point; as a matter of fact, it could use at least six more of those, bolded in 50-point font. It’s a uniquely thrilling ride ribbed with shards of dark humor, but mother! is bound to be Aronofsky’s most divisive film yet. Though wildly daring, Aronofsky’s latest is a self-indulgent melting pot exploding with too many ideas that’s as enthralling as it is frustrating.