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Reviews: The Lost Tiger from imagineNATIVE 2025

June 16, 2025

Final Rating: 3/5 The Lost Tiger, directed by Chantelle Murray, opens with Red (Jimi Bani) and Kara (Nakkiah Lui), a young kangaroo couple, discovering…

Reviews: Cells At Work from TJFF 2025

June 13, 2025

Final Rating: 4.5/5 The human body is a miracle of evolution. Containing over 37 trillion cells, our bodies work so well we usually take…

Reviews: Bonjour Tristesse

June 11, 2025

Final Rating: 3/5 Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness) is the aptly named drama from writer/director Durga Chew-Bose based on the 1954 novel by Francoise Sagan….

Reviews: The Woman in the Yard – Physical Release

June 6, 2025

In The Woman in the Yard, a grieving mother of two notices that an ominous woman clad in all black is just sitting and watching the family outside their home.

Reviews: In A Violent Nature

June 4, 2025

In A Violent Nature takes a fresh approach to the slasher genre by focusing almost entirely from the killer’s perspective as he hunts down a group of campers.

Reviews: Shall We Dance? – Restoration

June 2, 2025

In Shall We Dance?, a depressed Japanese man starts to take ballroom dance classes behind the back of his family, suddenly feels alive again.

Reviews: Sharp Corner

May 29, 2025

Sharp Corner shows how a man can completely spiral into madness as he believes he can keep his family and neighbourhood safe from a dangerous curve in the road.

Reviews: Matt and Mara

May 28, 2025

Matt and Mara is about two friends who reconnect, Matt is a successful author while Mara is a creative writing professor who struggles with her own output.

Reviews: It’s All Gonna Break

May 27, 2025

It’s All Gonna Break covers the inception and behind the scenes footage of Broken Social Scene shot by friend of the band Stephen Chung.

Reviews: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

May 26, 2025

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life tells the story of a woman who owns a bookshop and is torn between men as she tries to figure out which Austen world she lives in.