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Reviews: Nadja – Restoration

February 5, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 In the 1990s, the landscape of the American cinema provided audiences with a variety of film offers, including a varied production…

Reviews: Scarlet

February 4, 2026

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Mamoru Hosoda takes his interpretation of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet into the Otherworld, a life after death that offers a wealth of…

Reviews: Cosmic Princess Kaguya!

January 30, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 In the classic Japanese fairytale “The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter,” a bamboo cutter finds a tiny baby girl in a…

Reviews: Paying For It

January 28, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 Ed. note: read our original reviews of Paying For It from TIFF and VIFF. The contrasts in Paying For It start…

Reviews: Mother of Flies

January 22, 2026

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Beware the law of unintended consequences… Folk has a long and storied history in the horror genre, and Mother of Flies,…

Reviews: Dead Man’s Wire

January 15, 2026

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Ed. note: read our original review of Dead Man’s Wire from TIFF. Starting on February 8th 1977 and lasting several days,…

Reviews: Resurrection

January 12, 2026

Final Rating: 4.5/5 If you are excited by the idea of elevated Lynchian storytelling that is a love letter to the history of cinema…

Reviews: The Choral

January 7, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 When many of the young men in Yorkshire enlist to fight in World War I, it leaves a lot of vacancies…

Reviews: Imagine Fantastic Film Festival Round Up

January 6, 2026

Here is a round up of reviews from this year’s Imagine Fantastic Film Festival, including The Last Viking, New Group, Dollhouse and more!

Reviews: Kokuho from TIFF 2025

December 30, 2025

Final Rating: 4.5/5 In Japanese Kabuki theatre, women are traditionally forbidden from performing. In their place are “onnagata,” men who specialize in playing female…