Reviews

Also to re-unite two stars and watch the work of two sons of another star

Also Enola Holmes matches her brother's detection skills and a country music legend returns

Also uncovering a hidden story about slavery in the US and this year's exorcism movie

Also Bill Gibson's sci-fi on screen, Buffy Sainte-Marie's own story and the male gaze in the movies

Also a repeat look at a top-winner from Cannes that's going wider this week

Notably films about war in Ukraine, Muslim discord, peach farmers and a wily donkey

Also a few picks at the Vancouver International Film Festival, one about climate-change radicals

Also: a touching immigrant tale and the flying bankrobber

Also a kaleidescopic appreciation of Davie Bowie

For weeks we've been getting news about what and who are coming to the Toronto International Film Festival. Spielberg to Oprah. Special recognition to Brendan Fraser, Michelle Yeoh, Buffy Sainte-Marie and others. Celebrities and big titles. Now that TIFF is underway, we'll see many reviews. Meanwhile, the Vancouver International Film Festival announced its line up this week.

And: a very realistic picture of drug addiction in a family

Also: an unusually truthful film about young women and sex

Also saving the rainforest, opposing arranged marriage and partying angry

Also Indigenous/settler contact in a long lost opera and frazzled times running a restaurant