Trick mirror: The Substance seems inescapably in thrall to the seductive, glossy surfaces of Hollywood beauty standards that it is supposedly skewering
Candid camera: this year's festival offered an array of welcome surprises, including highlights like Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Nicolás Pereda Lázaro at Night, and more
Midnight confessions: the novelist and filmmaker discusses his new noir comedy, which follows a young man who returns to his hometown in the French countryside and finds himself embroiled in an unpredictable (and increasingly dangerous) game of lust
Debris slide: highlights from this year's edition included Brady Corbet's sweeping historical drama The Brutalist, Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua's surveillance thriller Stranger Eyes, and Alex Ross Perry's prismatic portrait of the iconic ’90s band Pavement
Bells ring: for our final Podcast from TIFF 2024, David Schwartz, Saffron Maeve, and Robert Daniels join to discuss shorts in the Wavelenghts program, as well as features from Muhammed Hamdy, Wang Bing, and Luca Guadagnino
Off the map: critics Adam Nayman and Beatrice Loayza join to discuss Jessica Sarah Rinland’s Collective Monologue, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The End, and more
Bitter pills: Madeline Whittle and Mark Asch join to discuss Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud, Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door, and more
Dig in: critics Mark Asch and David Schwartz join to kick of our TIFF 2024 coverage, discussing Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl, Raoul Peck's Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, and more
How to save a theater: members of the La Clef Revival collective share key insights from their successful campaign to reopen their beloved Parisian cinema
Collective horizons: a new series at Anthology Film Archives showcases the multifaceted work of Palestinian filmmakers and sisters Emily and Annemarie Jacir