Publications - THE ROLLING TAPE

Paul Rai

October 11, 2025

2026 Best Actor Oscar Nominations Predictions

There was a moment at the 31st SAG awards when Timothée Chalamet won Best Actor for his Bob Dylan music biopic, A Complete Unknown. For a mom...

Paul Rai

October 11, 2025

2026 Best Actress Oscar Nominations Predictions

The Best Actress race has been the most unpredictable and complicated for the last few years. Last year, Demi Moore ran the awards gambit for...

Adam Patla

October 9, 2025

61st Annual Chicago International Film Festival Curtain Raiser

The 61st Annual Chicago International Film Festival is slated for this October, continuing the ongoing fall festival season. As North America...

Jake Fittipaldi

October 8, 2025

Review: In ‘Roofman,’ Everyone Is Just Trying to Make Sense of It All

I first saw Roofman at TIFF 2025, deep into a week when most of us were running on caffeine and pure cinephilia. By that point, every film fe...

Ethan Simmie

October 6, 2025

‘Anemone’ Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Emerges from Retirement to Outshine His Son’s Directorial Debut

There’s no mistaking Daniel Day-Lewis. The first time we see him in Anemone is from the back. Yet, he immediately permeates his surroundings—...

Nadia Arain

October 6, 2025

Review: 'Good Boy' Features An Adorable Lead Exploring Inventive Terror

Ben Leonberg’s Good Boy (2025) seems like a premise that surely had to have been done before. A staple plot point of many haunted house films...

Nandita Joshi

October 6, 2025

What's the Point of 'Taylor Swift | The Official Release Party of a Showgirl'?

Grab your sequins, feather boas, and orange cardigans because it's time to get our showgirl on with the launch of Taylor Swift | The Official...

Essays

October 4, 2025

2026 Best Director Oscar Nominations Predictions: October

The Best Director race has yielded some of the most satisfying wins in recent memory. Longtime filmmakers, such as Sean Baker, Christoper Nol...

Essays

October 4, 2025

2026 Best Picture Oscar Nominations Predictions: October

Part of the fun of early Oscar predictions is the act of throwing darts into the dark and seeing the light shine on how far off and on we wer...

Nandita Joshi

October 3, 2025

'Urchin' Review: Harris Dickinson's Raw and Powerful Directorial Debut

So far, 2025 has seen a flood of actors take the daunting leap into directing. From Maude Apatow's Poetic License to Brian Cox's Glenrothan, ...

Paul Rai

October 2, 2025

'The Strangers: Chapter 2' Review: What Are We Doing Here?

This review contains spoilers for The Strangers film series. The Strangers (2008) was an independent horror that utilized minimalist f...

Lists

September 29, 2025 · by Sara Ciplickas

Our Top 10 Women-Directed Films from TIFF 2025

Coming out of our recap of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, we were excited to see so many women-led, women-directed films enter...

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