Ty Burr's Watch List

In Theaters: Is it worth sitting through an entertaining but morally questionable movie if it has three exceptional performances?

This is the weekly recap of Ty Burr’s Watch List recent postings.

I landed back in Boston from the Toronto Film Festival Tuesday night after seeing 21 movies in six days, which, honestly, is a sign I’m slowing down.

“Elsinore” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 1/2) – The Andrew Scott Appreciation Society grew significantly in this country with the actor’s turn as the Hot Priest in 2018’s “Fleabag” and it has only grown since with films like “All of Us Strangers” and “Blue Moon” and shows like…

I went into “I Play Rocky” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐) with a fair amount of skepticism – the making-of-a-movie movie is getting close to played out, I was worried it might be a Stallone vanity project and I still haven’t forgiven director Peter Farrelly for “Green Book”.

Normally I don’t pick a three hour and 16-minute movie as my film festival palate cleanser, but the movie in question is from Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, and after “Drive My Car,” “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy” (both 2021) and “Happy Hour” (2015), I would follow t…

I’m sitting in Logan Airport preparing to hop on a Porter Air flight across Lake, uh, America for the Toronto International Film Festival, my 25th time or so attending.

This is the weekly somewhat random recap of Ty Burr’s Watch List recent postings.

I’m coming to “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” (⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐, in theaters) a few weeks after its theatrical release, which I now regret because the movie isn’t just one of the better entries of the year but also a great leap forward for filmmaker Jane Sc…

Back in the mid-1980s, when I was a post-college zygote living in New York City and just starting to get stuff published in magazines, I met a man named Brian Cullman, who was a musician and a music journalist but mostly a guy who knew people and whose ta…

The Watch List Dog Days Sale continues until Monday August 10.

This is the weekend recap of Ty Burr’s Watch List recent postings.