‘Nouvelle Vague’ Review
Richard Linklater’s ode to French cinema and the community of filmmaking that the French New Wave fostered is a breezy celebration of creativity.
VIFF 2025: ‘Blue Heron’ Review
Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is an assured confrontation of memory and a formally fascinating autofiction that is one of the best films of the year.
‘Blue Moon’ Review
Richard Linklater’s creative relationship with Ethan Hawke yields some of their best work as the two explore the sadness of the larger-than-life Lorenz Hart over the course of a single night.
VIFF 2025: ‘It Was Just an Accident’ Review
Jafar Panahi’s latest film, It Was Just An Accident, thrives within the moral murkiness of a man seeking revenge on his suspected torturer.
‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ Review
The movie musical is put on a pedestal in Bill Condon’s ode to cinema and its role in providing light within the darkness.
Fantastic Fest 2025: ‘Coyotes’ Review
Colin Minihan’s latest film emptily gestures towards real-life concerns in a gory bloodbath of nature versus man.
‘Good Boy’ Review
Ben Leonberg’s feature directorial debut has an attention-grabbing premise, but is far better than just being a horror movie from the perspective of a dog.
VIFF 2025: ‘Dracula’ Review
Radu Jude continues his humorous and poignant commentaries on the intersection of technology and society, this time taking aim at artificial intelligence through the lens of Dracula.
‘Play Dirty’ Review
Shane Black’s latest film brings Donald E. Westlake’s Parker series of novels to the action comedy space, but loses a bit of the writer-director’s charms along the way.
TIFF 2025: ‘Carolina Caroline’ Review
Adam Carter Rehmeier’s Bonnie and Clyde riff continues to solidify the director’s love of Americana cinema in one of his most accessible and crowd-pleasing films to date.
TIFF 2025: ‘Obsession’ Review
Curry Barker’s feature directorial debut features astounding tonal control that creates nerve-wracking tension from a deceptively simplistic premise.
TIFF 2025: ‘Forastera’ | ‘The Blue Trail’
Lucía Aleñar Iglesias' directorial debut is a subtly powerful exploration of memory and grief, while Gabriel Mascaro returns to TIFF with a celebration of life's uncertainties against a dystopian future setting.