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Reviews: Miroirs No. 3 from VIFF 2025

October 8, 2025

Final Rating: 3.5/5 The latest film from the quiet German auteur Christian Petzold is Miroirs No. 3, once again stars his go to muse…

Reviews: A Useful Ghost from Genre Gems 2025

October 7, 2025

Final Rating: 3.5/5 We all want to be remembered… From Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, comes this unique tale of love, loss, and tragedy in…

Reviews: Ju Dou – Restoration

October 6, 2025

Director Zhang Yumou’s seminal 1990 film Ju Dou starring Gong Li as an abused wife who starts a relationship with her older husbands nephew, has received a restoration.

Reviews: Aniki-Bóbó from TIFF 2025

October 2, 2025

Final Rating: 4/5 Manoel de Oliveira is the most crucial filmmaker in Portuguese film history. Cinephiles around the world know his name for the…

Reviews: The Baltimorons

September 30, 2025

The Baltimorons is a new dramedy about one man who gets emergency dental surgery on Christmas Eve as he comes to terms with the highs and lows of his life.

Reviews: 2025 TIFF Midnight Madness Round Up Part 3

September 28, 2025

Midnight Madness plays the best in genre films during the Toronto International Film Festival. We saw almost every film in the program and wrote about them.

Reviews: 2025 TIFF Midnight Madness Round Up Part 2

September 27, 2025

Midnight Madness plays the best in genre films during the Toronto International Film Festival. We saw almost every film in the program and wrote about them.

Reviews: 2025 TIFF Midnight Madness Round Up Part 1

September 26, 2025

Midnight Madness plays the best in genre films during the Toronto International Film Festival. We saw almost every film in the program and wrote about them.

Reviews: Eleanor The Great

September 25, 2025

Final Rating: 2/5 Known for her prolific acting career, Scarlett Johansson tries her hand at directing with Eleanor the Great. However, despite decent performances…

Reviews: Dead Man’s Wire from TIFF 2025

September 24, 2025

Dead Man’s Wire is a true story about a man in 1977 who kidnaps the son of a bank manager to help pay off his mortgage, but is the hero of the story.