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Read all about it: 10 Hot Picks for the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival

Ten must-see features, plus a bonus short, at TIFF 2021 (Sept. 9-18)

🐝"Chasing the Buzz": 36 films coming to TIFF 2021 that film lovers really want to see

The 21st annual Toronto Star poll for the Toronto International Film Festival, Sept. 9-18.

Taking a sad song and making it better

Revisiting Beatles doc "Let It Be" reveals music history that needed rewriting.

Films with bite and brains at Hot Docs 2021

12 hot picks for Toronto's annual celebration of documentary cinema, April 29 - May 9.

People of colour and women make historic breakthroughs, but Oscar diversity remains elusive

This year's Academy Awards will be remembered as a year of qualified triumph.

Peter Howell's Top 10 for 2020: Finding human connections in a socially distant year

The coronavirus kept us apart, but movies still had the power to bring us together.

The late, great Sean Connery on the late-career joy of working with a woman his own age

Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands enter the room like parents working a family reunion.

The bug can’t stop the buzz at TIFF 2020

For once this pandemic year, that tingling sensation isn’t the fear of COVID-19.

20 Hot Picks for TIFF 2020

Peter Howell's 20 best bets for TIFF 2020, chosen from the 61 features on offer.

Jerry Garcia’s death, 25 years ago, helped popularize the Internet

A story from the sad day in 1995 when cyberspace rippled as Deadheads grieved.

Movies I can't live without

Toronto Star movie critic Peter Howell has written a book about his 25 favourite 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 film:

"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, 52 years after its release and 19 years after its significant title year. It never gets old and I never tire of seeing it, even after 50-plus viewings..."