Festivals: Toronto Film Festival
Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN
The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...
Toronto 2025 Wrap: Reviews, Interviews, News, and More
Our coverage of the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is drawing to a close. A couple of weeks ago, the festival announced their 2025 award winners. We saw a lot of winners, too, which is great...
Toronto 2025 Review: FOLLIES Portrays Polyamory's Awkward Learning Curve
Canadian filmmaker Eric K. Boulianne examines the shifting dynamics of long-term intimacy through the lens of non-monogamy, framing a comedy of sexual curiosity that doubles as a study of identity, desire, and generational change.
Toronto 2025 Review: LOVELY DAY Turns a Wedding Movie Into a Neurotic Comedy of Errors
Philippe Falardeau adapts Alain Farah's autobiographical novel into a formally restless portrait of anxiety and memory, using the wedding-movie framework less to stage a union than to examine the unstable ground beneath it.
Toronto 2025 Review: FRANZ Uses a Fragmented, Hybrid Form to Portray Kafka Beyond the Conventional Biopic
Selected as Poland's submission for the Academy Awards, Agnieszka Holland's film approaches the challenge of depicting Franz Kafka through a fragmented docu-fiction form that reflects the author's elusive legacy.
Toronto 2025 Interview: LOVELY DAY, Philippe Falardeau Talks Adapting Alain Farah's Novel, Visualizing Anxiety, Deconstructing the Wedding Film
Philippe Falardeau discusses the making of his bold and unconventional adaptation of Alain Farah's autobiographical novel, which reframes the wedding film as a playful yet unsettling exploration of memory, anxiety, and cultural identity.
Toronto 2025 Interview: TO THE VICTORY!, Valentyn Vasyanovych Talks Dystopian Comedy, Wartime Filmmaking, His Lead Role
Valentyn Vasyanovych discusses the making of his latest film, from stepping in front of the camera to navigating wartime production realities.
Toronto 2025 Review: FUZE, Twists and Tough Guys Power Muscular Heist-Thriller
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James and Sam Worthington lead David Mackenzie's twisty actioner.
Toronto 2025 Review: NUREMBERG, Holocaust Courtroom Drama Fails to Justify Its Existence
Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon star in James Vanderbilt's historical drama.
Toronto 2025 Review: COUTURE, Angelina Jolie Stars in Parisian Fashion Tale
Angelina Jolie makes her French-language debut in Alice Winocour's haute couture drama.
Friday One Sheet: COPPER
This highly unusual poster instantly communicates that it is for a highly unusual film. Completely at odds with the look of the film (which is dust and tan) or the title of the film, Copper, the washed out blue looks...
Toronto 2025 Review: FRANKENSTEIN, Guillermo del Toro's Handsome, Empathetic Monster
“Can you contain your fire, Prometheus, or will you burn your hands?” The line is spoken by Christoph Waltz’s polymath gentlemen of curiosities, a 19th century military-industrial baron who got rich off the Crimean War, and whose hobbies get in...
Toronto 2025 Review: THE CURRENTS, Oblique and Tactile Nightmare
At the peak of her career, Catalina (or Cata, or Lina, depending on what social context she is in) appears to have it all: a successful career, a tasteful modern home, a sensitive, engaged husband, and a beautiful young daughter....
Toronto 2025 Review: COVER-UP, Takes A Closer Look at Seymour Hersh and The Ongoing American Experiment
“In case anyone cares, this is getting less and less fun. I’d like to quit this doc.” Seymour “Sy” Hersh spars with director Laura Poitras at several points during her feature length documentary ,Cover-up, a career retrospective of the iconic journalist....
Toronto 2025 Review: AKI, An Immersive Season in the North
We can get an impression of a place that we move through as a tourist; though of course that is always mediated by the fact that we are a tourist, and actually living in a place, learning and becoming a part...
Toronto 2025 Review: COPPER, The Driest Slacker-Comedy Ever Made
The latest film from particular and peculiar Canadian-Mexican auteur Nicolás Pereda might flirt at times with a plot, but to view it this way is actually fool's gold. It is much more, specifically, a study of character in a...
Toronto 2025 Review: ADULTHOOD, Dark Comedy Tests the Sibling Bond
It's not easy watching one's parents get old, and having to care for them, mostly because we don't like to be reminded of how we're all end up with the problems of aging. The task of looking after aging parents...
Toronto 2025 Review: DIYA Builds an Emotionally Charged Thriller Out of an Ancient Cultural Issue
Wherever you are on this planet, one split second can change your life. This may be instantly, or the first domino in a slow, irreversible crash-out of all the best made plans. For Dane Francis, an NGO driver on the...
Toronto 2025 Review: HONEY BUNCH: Loving the Pieces and the Whole
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli return with a 70s-intimate-sci-fi horror sophomore feature.
Toronto 2025: RETREAT, A Unique Film Shows an Isolated Community Hides Dark Secrets
If a person cannot be understood, if they need something outside of what is common in order to full live and thrive in our society, they are often shunted to the side at best, or at worst, treated as burdens...
