TIFF 2025 Review: Ballad of a Small Player – “Colin Farrell is not appreciated enough for his willingness to push boundaries.”
A travelling gambler’s streak of bad luck gets even worse when he has to atone for his past indiscretions. Residing in a luxury hotel in...
Read MoreTIFF 2025 Review: Tuner – “an intriguing premise”
In an effort to pay off the debts of his mentor and employer, a piano tuner utilizes his unique hearing talents to crack open safes. The...
Read MoreTIFF 2025 Review: Dust to Dreams – “The standout performance belongs to Constance Olatunde Konstance.”
A dying nightclub owner passes on the family business to her daughter and entrusts her parental guardianship to the father she has never...
Read MoreTIFF 2025 Review: The Cost of Heaven – “a slow deconstruction of a person going through increasingly hard times”
In order to maintain the standard of living his family has become accustomed to Nacer must navigate through financial ambition, misfortune...
Read MoreTIFF 2025 Review: Noviembre – “an in-the-moment documentary feel to the visuals and performances.”
On November 6, 1985 a guerrilla group called M-19 seizes control of the Palace of Justice leading to a violent confrontation with the...
Read MoreTIFF 2025 Review: Rental Family – “Getting to experience the ongoing revival of Brendan Fraser is a real treat.”
A struggling American actor living in Japan uses his role playing experience to assist those struggling with their personal lives. Trying...
Read MoreTIFF 2025 Review: Sk+te’kmujue’katik (At the Place of Ghosts) – “the visual effects elevate the otherworldliness.”
Two Mi’kmaw brothers must properly bury a past traumatic in order for them to have a future. An encounter with a hooded grim reaper made...
Read MoreTIFF 2025 Review: Steve -“an interesting mix of cinéma vérité documentary style shooting with a hallucinatory drug and alcohol infused imagery.”
The head teacher at a reform school must contend with his own personal demons and public apathy while trying to bring some inner peace and...
Read MoreTIFF 2025 Review: The Wizard of the Kremlin
Speaking with an American journalist, Vadim Baranov looks back on his life and how he became a spin doctor and advisor to Vladmir Putin....
Read MoreTIFF 2025 Review: The Choral – “There is a profoundness and uniqueness to the visuals.”
In the midst of World War I, a controversy ensues as the new chorus master chosen by the Choral Society in Ramsden, Yorkshire admires how...
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