“No, but it’s not impossible. It’s not impossible for sure. I would want to be involved, and I’ve got two other shows I’m working on right now,” Daniels told Collider. Daniels served as showrunner for the first four seasons of “The Office” before departing to co-create NBCUniversal’s similarly-beloved “Parks and Recreation.” Daniels resumed showrunner duties for the ninth and final season of “The Office,” which concluded in 2013. “The Office” has been back in the news following the acclaimed workplace comedy’s shift from Netflix to the NBCUniversal-owned Peacock streaming service at the beginning of 2021....

In “The Runner,” an illiterate 11-year-old orphan (Niroumand), living alone in an abandoned tanker in the Iranian port city of Abadan, survives by shining shoes, selling water, and diving for deposit bottles, while being bullied by both adults and competing older kids. But he finds solace by dreaming about departing cargo ships and airplanes and by running — seemingly to nowhere. The movie has echoes of Vittorio De Sica’s “Shoeshine” and “The Bicycle Thief,” along with Luis Buñuel’s “Los Olvidados” and Francois Truffaut’s “The 400 Blows” in combining a childhood coming-of-age story with neorealist elements....

— CinemaScore (@CinemaScore) September 17, 2022 “The Woman King” is the 91st film to receive a perfect grade from CinemaScore (before this, the most recent was “Top Gun: Maverick”). Since the poll is conducted from people who were already interested enough in the film to see it, a CinemaScore grade is widely seen as a barometer of how much a movie matches its audience’s expectations. Critically acclaimed films like Darren Aronofsky’s “mother” can receive low scores (in that case, an F) if they significantly diverge from being the kind of movie that the marketing campaign promised....

Set in Montgomery, Alabama during the late ’60s, this version of “The Wonder Years” follows Dean Williams (Elisha Williams), a fairly typical middle school student, albeit one whose life is narrated by Don Cheadle as a grown-up version of our young protagonist. Dean’s upbringing is a simple one but considering the time and place, he’s headed toward some of the most tempestuous elements of the decade that would define the Civil Rights Movement....

Julie (Renate Reinsve) is a smart Norwegian med school student in her late 20s who looks as much like Dakota Johnson as Dakota Johnson ever has. Director Joaquin Trier underscores her allure as we first meet her, poised on a balcony above downtown Oslo in a backless cocktail dress, so strongly that he even racks focus on the city behind her until it’s just a blur. She has the world at her feet, and the rat-a-tat narration can hardly keep up with her roiling sense of youthful possibility....

“For TIFF audiences in the know, the Discovery, Midnight Madness and Wavelengths programmes are where you’re rewarded for taking risks and being adventurous,” offered Anita Lee, TIFF’s chief programming officer. “Whether it’s the discovery of an audacious new auteur, a brilliant visionary work that reimagines storytelling or the most wicked cinematic experience you will ever have, this is where you will find it.” Discovery “TIFF’s Discovery program is a showcase of cinema and talent from around the world — a place to unearth work that is bold, distinctive, and, above all, passionate,” said Dorota Lech, Discovery lead and international programmer, TIFF....

Cruise went on to note that he wasn’t interested in apologies: “You can tell it to the people who are losing their fucking homes because the industry is shut down. It’s not going to put food on their table or pay for their college education. That’s what I sleep with every night — the future of this fucking industry!” In hindsight, that furious speech was an uncanny echo of several things that Cruise had said “in character” the previous year — months before the first documented COVID-19 case — while shooting “Top Gun: Maverick....