Reel Reviews | Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (TIFF ’25)
Rian Johnson brings Benoit Blanc back in Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, this time unraveling a murder in a small Catholic parish where faith, power, and morality collide.
Reel Reviews | Fuze (TIFF ’25)
With a WWII bomb ticking beneath London and a daring heist unfolding above ground, Fuze is a high-stakes thriller that blends explosive spectacle with layered character drama.
Reel Reviews | Dinner with Friends (TIFF ’25)
Friendship is messy. Sasha Leigh Henry’s Dinner With Friends peels back the layers of love, betrayal, and resilience as eight longtime friends reunite for a series of dinner parties that reveal both the beauty and the fractures of adulthood.
Reel Reviews | Oca (TIFF ’25)
Faith, fate, and prophecy collide in Oca, a poetic debut from Karla Badillo that turns a nun’s pilgrimage into a game of chance and survival.
Reel Reviews | Steal Away (TIFF ’25)
Clement Virgo’s Steal Away is a layered coming-of-age drama that blends desire, culture, and survival.
Reel Reviews | Motor City (TIFF ’25)
Motor City is a gritty, stylish revenge thriller where the score often speaks louder than the characters, turning minimal dialogue into a driving force for tension and atmosphere.
Reel Reviews | A Private Life (TIFF ’25)
Jodie Foster delivers a magnetic French-language performance in Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life, a darkly intimate tale of disconnection, grief, and blurred realities.
Reel Reviews | The Choral (TIFF ’25)
Ralph Fiennes leads Nicholas Hytner’s The Choral, a poignant WWI-era drama that explores music as both refuge and resistance.