Arts

Review: Dated Rusalka overlooks character development

The Election is insightful but too insipid to offer a compelling debate

The Flick expertly taps into millennial melancholy and benefits from a beguiling, immersive production

Planet in Focus film festival in Toronto offers a new, more nuanced look at climate change

Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s incoming music director Gustavo Gimeno believes old and new compositions can coexist

At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Canada’s small presses get ready for next year’s spotlight

New films in theatres and streaming this week, from the slight story of El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie to Ang Lee’s story-lacking spectacle Gemini Man

The new animated Addams Family adventure is not nearly as creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky as it ought to be

Toronto Symphony Orchestra gets $10-million donation, its largest single gift ever

In Gemini Man, Ang Lee’s use of high-speed filmmaking, plus CGI, opens up a whole new world

For the classical Artemis Musicians’ Society, membership has a key requirement – all the performers are victims of sexual assault

Eddie Murphy nails his comeback in Netflix’s Dolemite Is My Name

The heartbreaking Dolce Fine Giornata asks difficult questions, but doesn’t give enough time to process them

Ang Lee races to the future with Gemini Man’s visuals, but leaves his script in the past

A deadpan Brett Gelman rescues the nasty little lost-at-sea thriller Harpoon

Democracy in Canada offers a bleak view of our core political and social institutions

Fiery blues guitarist Beverly Watkins dies at 80

Bob Dylan musical Girl from the North Country favours complete unknowns over hits

Roger Avary’s Pulp Fiction wannabe Lucky Day is one of the worst movies of the year ⁠– and Canada is partly to blame

Xavier Dolan comes home to Quebec but forgets his typically urgent passion in Matthias & Maxime

Rich and affecting docudrama MS Slavic 7 expands the delights of the Sofia Bohdanowicz Cinematic Universe

The Natalie Portman-starring NASA drama Lucy in the Sky gets lost in space

Priyanka Chopra Jonas’ answer to dwindling opportunities for actresses of a certain vintage? Producing films herself

The Enthusiast: In praise of Facebook groups, the last bastion of civility on the internet

Through the eyes of the law: Why have Canada’s top judges been leery of writing their memoirs?

Tickets for Toronto production of Hamilton to go on sale on Oct. 28

A year after Syrian artist Houssam Alloum’s arrival in Canada, his portrait work is nominated for the Kingston Prize

The Cave thrillingly documents a complicated and unprecedented rescue in Thailand

Almighty Voice and His Wife finds an ally with Soulpepper as its first play by a First Nations playwright