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Reviews: Toy Gun Bandit from TIFF 2025

September 28, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 It is a right of passage for young people to test boundaries by lashing out at authority figures, struggling with where…

Reviews: The Julia Set from TIFF 2026

September 27, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 Romance and rivalry develop between two university students preparing for the prestigious Putnam Competition in Niki Byrne’s The Julia Set. The…

Reviews: Heart of the Beast

September 26, 2026

Final Rating: 2/5 An army veteran and a decommissioned service dog brave the Alaskan wilderness in David Ayer’s Heart of the Beast. Heart stars…

Reviews: Primetime

September 25, 2026

Final Rating: 4.5/5 “Why don’t you take a seat?” Robert Pattinson delivers a career-best performance as “To Catch a Predator” host Chris Hansen in…

Reviews: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty

September 24, 2026

Final Rating: 3.5/5 From director Josef Kubota Wladyka (Catch the Fair One) Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty tells the tale of love, loss and the…

Reviews: Auntie Mame – Physical Release

September 23, 2026

Final Rating: 3.5/5 4K UHD Recommendation: Recommend Here’s a little classic Hollywood thought experiment. Who are the three greatest comedic female actors before the…

Reviews: Misty Green from TIFF 2026

September 22, 2026

Final Rating: 2/5 Directed by Chris Rock, Misty Green stars Rosalind Eleazar as an actress struggling to find parts several years after winning an…

Reviews: The Man I Love from TIFF 2026

September 21, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 An actor prepares for a new role while struggling with his own mortality in the director Ira Sachs 1980s-set The Man…

Reviews: Angh from TIFF 2026

September 19, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 An aging village chief in the eastern Indian state of Nagaland fights to preserve his culture while an American missionary converts…

Reviews: Salvation from TIFF 2026

September 18, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 Salvation, directed by Tom Nicoll, opens on a scene of several prim and proper white blokes delivering motivational speeches to each…