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Reviews: Meteors from IFFO 2026

April 6, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 From directors/writers Hubert Charuel and Claude La Pape, Meteors (Météors) portrays a tale of friendship, addiction, and the inevitable toll it…

Reviews: Mile End Kicks from IFFO 2026

April 3, 2026

Final Rating: 2.5/5 From Canadian writer/director Chandler Levack, Mile End Kicks is a dramedy that follows the trials and tribulations of Grace (Barbie Ferreira)…

Reviews: Fantasy Life

April 2, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 Matthew Shear’s directorial debut Fantasy Life follows Sam (Shear) and Diane (Amanda Peet) in an awkward journey of self-discovery. Sam is…

Reviews: My Salinger Year from IFFO 2026

April 1, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 Ed. note: read our original review of My Salinger Year by Dakota Arsenault from Cinefest Sudbury 2020. My Salinger Year is…

Reviews: Montréal, ma belle from IFFO 2026

March 30, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 From writer/director Xiaodan He, Montréal, ma belle (Montreal, My Beautiful) is a beautifully crafted love letter to following your heart and…

Reviews: A Magnificent Life

March 27, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 In Sylvain Chomet’s A Magnificent Life, he has the easy task of making Marcel Pagnol’s life out to be extraordinary. It…

Reviews: 1000 Women in Horror

March 26, 2026

Final Rating: 3/5 1000 Women in Horror (dir. Donna Davies), a documentary led by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, is a broad, sometimes shallow, survey of womanhood…

Reviews: The Track from IFFO 2026

March 24, 2026

Final Rating: 4/5 Ed. note: read our original review of The Track by Paulo Bautista from San Francisco International Film Festival 2025 From Canadian…

Reviews: Jimpa from IFFO 2026

March 23, 2026

Final Rating: 2.5/5 Jimpa, a coming of age drama from director Sophie Hyde, stars John Lithgow as Jim and Olivia Colman as his daughter…

Reviews: We Are Pat from IFFO 2026

March 20, 2026

Final Rating: 3.5/5 We Are Pat, from director Ro Haber delves into many questions surrounding the comedic phenomenon that was ‘It’s Pat!’ on Saturday…