Reel Reviews | Nouvelle Vague (TIFF ’25)
Richard Linklater revisits one of cinema’s great revolutions in Nouvelle Vague, a witty, reverent, and chaotic dramatization of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.
Film Reviews
Reel Reviews | The Furious (TIFF ’25)
With Mo Tse’s “fists of fury” leading the charge, this Hong Kong action spectacle delivers bone-crunching fights, emotional weight, and one of the year’s most thrilling finales.
Reel Reviews | Wayward
Mae Martin’s series takes viewers into the sinister heart of a seemingly idyllic town, where Toni Collette’s chilling performance as the manipulative head of a “troubled teen” academy anchors a story steeped in secrets, control, and psychological dread.
Reel Reviews | Frankenstein (TIFF ’25)
With Oscar Isaac as the obsessed scientist and Jacob Elordi as his anguished creation, this adaptation explores not just monsters, but the cruelty of those who make them.
Reel Reviews | The Girlfriend
In The Girlfriend, love becomes a battlefield where no one walks away clean. This tense psychological thriller unravels a twisted story of obsession, privilege, and control, where two possessive women go to war, and the man in the middle becomes collateral damage.
Reel Reviews | Wasteman (TIFF ’25)
Gritty, claustrophobic, and morally fraught, Cal McMau’s latest asks whether redemption is possible in a system designed to break you.
Reel Reviews | Good Fortune (TIFF ’25)
Aziz Ansari’s Good Fortune blends broad comedy with heartfelt reflection as Keanu Reeves delivers a sly, self-aware turn as a bumbling angel whose meddling sets off chaos.
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.