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Family affair: our roundtable of critics feasts on some of the buzzier TIFF titles, including Spielberg’s The Fabelmans, Aronofsky’s The Whale, Sarah Polley’s Women Talking, and more
Mirror mirror: Mark Asch and Madeline Whittle join to discuss festival standouts like Laura Poitras’s All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People's Children, and more
On the verge: Amalric and Krieps, director and star of the new Hold Me Tight, discuss the narrative and cinematic balancing act of depicting a mind in flux
Explosive material: our first dispatch from TIFF touches on Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter, eco-terrorist thriller How to Blow Up a Pipeline, and more
Locked in: Gina Telaroli, Inney Prakash, and Steve Macfarlane join to discuss some highlights from the repertory calendar, including series at Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, and Maysles Documentary Center