Film

Five things to watch this weekend: Netflix’s American Symphony bends your ear, plus Nathan Fielder’s The Curse continues to be a blessing

Bollywood legend Anil Kapoor says he’s always evolving – but there’s one role he’ll never take on

Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro is a grand symphony of ambition

To resurrect the ‘80s cult flicks of his past, one Canadian filmmaker went back to the future

John Woo’s action-lite Silent Night is all filler, no killer

The heartbreaking drama Monster marks a tremendous return to Japan for Hirokazu Kore-eda

To John Woo, thanks for everything! Love, action fans

Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali face an unsteady apocalypse in Netflix’s Leave the World Behind

Five things to watch this weekend: Swan Song dances to CBC Gem, plus Netflix plays another Squid Game

Aki Kaurismaki’s tragicomedy Fallen Leaves is the sweetest surprise of the year

Dream Scenario director Kristoffer Borgli on why Toronto makes the perfect ‘boring city’

How Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is fuelling Apple’s big-screen revolution

Don’t sleep on Dream Scenario, Nicolas Cage’s best movie in ages

Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby rule in the epic Napoleon, Ridley Scott’s late-career masterpiece

Hollywood’s feast and famine before Thanksgiving, as Hunger Games prequel tops box office

Disney’s Wish is a four-star centenary gift to itself, at least when it’s singing

Five things to watch this weekend: Godzilla crashes Apple TV+, and Netflix returns to Scott Pilgrim’s Toronto

With his documentary The Stones and Brian Jones, director Nick Broomfield offers sympathy for the dead guitarist

Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore get their sweet comeuppance in deliciously frothy May December

Why Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence re-enlisted for Suzanne Collins’s dystopian prequel

Taika Waititi fumbles with minor-league soccer comedy Next Goal Wins

Iman Vellani’s journey from Markham to Marvel Studios

NSYNC, but not ingenious: Trolls Band Together is harmless boy-band background noise

Career accelerator program aims to boost women in animation industry

Inside one Canadian filmmaker’s quest to resurrect classical music’s forgotten ‘Lady with the Golden Bow’

Denys Arcand comments on culture wars in social satire Testament

Odds are not in favour of overwhelming Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Five things to watch this weekend: CBC dials up BlackBerry miniseries, plus Albert Brooks defends his life

Sloppy and incomprehensible, The Marvels reveals a superhero machine in full breakdown mode

Fear and loathing at the American Film Market

There’s no Hollywood ending to the actors’ strike

At Toronto’s Reel Asian film festival, directors ‘need our help, they need all the help they can get’

The Legend of Zelda will be made into a live-action movie

Inside CBC’s big experiment to turn BlackBerry and other Canadian films into miniseries

Rustin succeeds despite some flawed narrative choices

Five things to stream this weekend: Bening and Foster rescue Nyad, plus Stallone knocks out Netflix