TIFF 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: Saipan – “entertaining”
In 2002, Ireland was a “Nation consumed by a soap opera.” So said the media, which also compared the sorrow spreading...
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: A Private Life – “The uncertainty of it all overrides what could have been a fun little murder mystery.”
“Psycho killer, qu’est-ce que c’est?” asks the Talking Heads in the opening music of A Private Life. What is...
Read MoreTIFF 2025 Review: Sentimental Value – “Feels acutely authentic.”
At the centre of director Joachim Trier’s latest feature is a house. It features red gingerbread trim and a unique outline, having...
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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