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Sundance to go: one-stop shopping for film fest review tweets 🔥 ❄️

Peter Howell's Sundance 2023 tweets, updated daily.

Sundance reborn: Can the hybrid model work for the indie festival?

Coming attractions to Sundance '23 (L-R): "Bad Behaviour," "Cat Person" and "infinity Pool" — Courtesy of Sundance Institute. Peter...

Why Olga vanishes into the derelict building in "TÁR": a theory

Spoiler alert — but can you really spoil a film as puzzling as "TÁR"?

"Aftersun" shines at Toronto Film Critics' awards vote

Sublime father-and-daughter story wins four prizes.

"Titanic" still sails, a quarter century later

James Cameron's big ship saga is even better in 3D.

Dead on arrival, foul "Babylon" is one of the worst movies of 2022

Will it become known as Damien Chazelle's folly?

The 10 best movies of 2022 ... plus three bombs

What's nice and what's naughty as the year comes to a close.

From "2001" to "Vertigo," here are the 10 best films ever

Toronto Star critic Peter Howell's submission to 2022 Sight & Sound poll.

"Women Talking" makes us question forgiveness, love, justice and faith

Sarah Polley transforms a novel of communal violation into essential cinema.

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Movies I Can't Live Without

Toronto Star movie critic 𝗣𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗛𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 has written a book about his 25 most-loved movies, with highly personal reviews from "Apocalypse Now" to "The Wizard of Oz." Here's a sample of his review of "2001: A Space Odyssey," his all-time favourite:

"It was billed as The Ultimate Trip and the hyperbole was justified, then as now.

Stanley Kubrick's space opus still seems like the future, 54 years after its release and 21 years after its significant title year. It never gets old and I never tire of seeing it, even after 50-plus viewings ...." 🌓