With all the marquee Venice and Telluride titles missing at TIFF this year, it wasn’t that hard to come up with a Top 10 list — it’s turning out to be a strong year at the movies.

I was not going to write anything about this “controversy,” but a few readers pushed me to do so. I was exhausted from covering TIFF and didn’t think it was a big enough issue, but here goes.

For once, the right movie won. Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” a confident debut and remarkable feat of comedy, satire and racial politics, won the coveted TIFF People’s Choice Award.

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” has passed the $900 million mark at the worldwide box-office. It’s still making money in China, so that won’t be its final tally. It’s currently at $912 million.

In a new interview with The Guardian, Reeves confirms that he filmed Paul Dano doing “70 or 80 takes” of the Riddler and Batman’s final confrontation in the 2022 film.

A24’s first big deal out of TIFF happened this evening. They bought Greg Kwedar’s “Sing Sing,” which stars Colman Domingo, Clarence Maclin, Sean San José, and Paul Raci.

Paul Schrader hasn’t been shy in saying he wants to go back to the Cannes Film Festival. He hasn’t had a film inside that festival’s official lineup since 1990’s “The Comfort of Strangers.”

Craig Gillespie’s decently watchable “Dumb Money,” which tackled the GameStop/Reddit drama, is now in theaters, it’s being rolled out as a limited release in NYC and L.A.

According to Production Weekly, Guillermo del Toro’s “Dr. Frankenstein” is planning to start production in February of 2024.

“Aggro Dr1ft” is maybe the best example yet that Harmony Korine has completely lost his mind. It’s the work of a total madman.

A blatant absence at this year’s fall fests was Marielle Heller’s upcoming “Nightbitch,” starring Amy Adams. What’s been even murkier are Searchlight's release plans for the film.

Kenneth Branagh’s latest Hercules Poirot instalment, “A Haunting in Venice,” will most likely finish #1 at the box office this weekend, but only with an estimated $15 million.

Ang Lee’s next film is a Bruce Lee biopic starring his own son in the lead role. It’s hotly-anticipated and, according to producer Lawrence Grey, all writing for the project was nearly complete before the strike.

I doubt this’ll be getting any awards traction, but MGM has officially submitted Jonathan Major’s “Creed III” performance for Oscar consideration.

Linklater has been doing interviews for the film, and, speaking to NME, he’s a big “Barbie” fan. In fact, he’s seen it multiple times, citing how impressed he was by the musical numbers.

What happened to Chris Pine’s “Poolman”? I had reported about the disastrous premiere screening on Tuesday, before reviews had even come out, but things have only gotten worse since then.

I’m not entirely sure which version of “Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom” will be released since, at least, three different ones have been test-screened. Regardless, a trailer has been released.

After Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve and Danny Boyle, here’s another name that is added to the list of potential Bond directors.

Here’s the trailer for Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar.” I know some of our readers, actually, a lot of them, have grown to dislike Anderson’s highly stylized cinema, but I’m not one of them.