The films I saw at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival offered an array of welcome surprises. Given the brutalities that have beset the world since the festival’s previous edition, Hard ...
Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance is the latest in a string of recent films directed by women—Julia Ducournau’s Titane (2021), Amanda Nell Eu’s Tiger Stripes (2023), and Rose Glass’s Love Lies Bleeding ...