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Reviews: Blue Moon from VIFF 2025

October 16, 2025

Blue Moon is the 2nd film of 2025 from Richard Linklater. Here he tells the story of Lorenz Hart, the one time partner of famed composer Richard Rodgers.

Reviews: A Welcome Distraction from VIFF 2025

October 15, 2025

Final Rating: 4/5 It’s easy to relate and to understand immediately what the title of Brian Daniel Johnson’s debut film A Welcome Distraction could…

Reviews: Wrong Husband (Uiksaringitara) from TIFF 2025

October 10, 2025

Final Rating: 4.5/5 Uiksaringitara, or Wrong Husband, is a gorgeous Inuit epic depicting both an intimate romance between two lovers, and a grander supernatural…

Reviews: Dreams from Genre Gems 2025

October 9, 2025

Final Rating: 3/5 Dreams, the latest drama from Mexican director Michel Franco (see our review of Memory) stars Jessica Chastain as Jennifer McCarty, a…

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.