Reel Reviews | Renoir (TIFF ’25)
Chie Hayakawa’s Renoir revisits Tokyo in 1987 through the eyes of 11-year-old Fuki, a sensitive child caught between her father’s terminal illness and the turbulence of growing up.
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Reel Reviews | Adulthood
In Alex Winter’s Adulthood, siblings Noah and Megan uncover a decades-old corpse in their mother’s basement, setting off a darkly comic spiral of crime, cover-ups, and family dysfunction.
Reel Reviews | Him
by Charles Kirkland, Jr. A young athlete descends into a world of terror when he’s invited to train with a legendary champion whose charisma morphs [read more]
Reel Reviews | Sink (TIFF ’25)
Breaking the silence around mental health in the Arab world, Zain Duraie’s Sink is a raw and moving Jordanian drama about a mother’s unyielding fight for her son.
Reel Reviews | One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another fuses satire, family drama, and revolution into one explosive ride.
Reel Reviews | A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie embark on a surreal road trip guided by a sentient GPS in A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Directed by Kogonada, this romantic fantasy blends stage play intimacy with cinematic poetry.
Reel Reviews | Normal (TIFF ’25)
Bob Odenkirk continues his unlikely action-star run in Normal, a small-town crime thriller where nothing is as it seems.
Reel Reviews | Black Rabbit
Jude Law and Jason Bateman electrify as brothers whose New York restaurant becomes the backdrop for ambition, betrayal, and survival in Netflix’s new limited series.