Leave the rich girl alone. Music aside, Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette is far from a royal disgrace.

California Split begins with Altmanesque babble, which is always in the background. We’re used to gambling movies made in a style as feverish as their protagonists. But Altman sits back and watches the ebb and flow—the traffic of lost souls.

A celebration of real New York movies—the ones actually shot here.

At the Toronto Film Festival, the 27-year-old Scottish actor was touted as the next Ewan McGregor, thanks to starring roles in three movies, including The Last King of Scotland, in which McAvoy plays Idi Amin’s (fictional) physician.

Everyone’s going to hell in The Departed, and Martin Scorsese has fun killing them off along the way.

1. Hit the standby lines for tickets to the fest’s most star-studded films. 2. View our selection of the fest’s best shorts. 3. Buy tickets now to these three standouts—there were still seats available at press time.

And bow down to Helen Mirren. A wonderful film about cool, clueless Elizabeth in the days after Diana.

A staple of New York’s eighties punk scene, Dito Montiel has turned his memoir, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, into a movie with Robert Downey Jr. and Rosario Dawson.

John Cameron Mitchell wants America to stop being scared and start having more sex.

In The Science of Sleep, Michel Gondry’s magic-carpet ride almost makes it through the night.