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Reviews: Aberdeen from imagineNATIVE 2025

June 19, 2025

Aberdeen is about a grandmother who is stuck in a cycle of struggle as she deals with being unhoused, addiction and losing custody of her grandchildren.

Reviews: Give It All from TJFF 2025

June 18, 2025

Give It All is a Japanese animated film about a girls high school rowing club and the adversities they face.

Reviews: Remaining Native from imagineNATIVE 2025

June 17, 2025

Final Rating: 3.5/5 In summer 2022, Kutoven “Ku” Stevens began the annual Remembrance Run, a two-day, 50-mile event in rural Nevada, in which participants…

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.