Reel Reviews | Steve
In Steve, Cillian Murphy delivers one of his rawest performances yet as a reform school headmaster struggling to hold together a crumbling institution and his own fractured psyche.
Film Reviews
Reel Reviews | The Lost Bus
The Lost Bus takes us inside the deadliest fire in California history, where Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera lead a harrowing true story of courage, sacrifice, and survival.
Reel Reviews | The Smashing Machine
Mixing bruising fight scenes with the emotional toll of addiction and fractured love, the film asks whether glory in the ring is worth the cost outside of it.
Reel Reviews | Twinless
Two men meet in a support group for twinless twins, and what starts as emotional healing spirals into obsession, identity crises, and sexual tension.
Reel Reviews | Play Dirty
Shane Black returns to the heist genre with Play Dirty, a brash, chaotic adaptation of Donald Westlake’s Parker novels.
Reel Reviews | Lucky Lu (TIFF ’25)
What would you sacrifice to keep a dream alive? In Lloyd Lee Choi’s gripping debut Lucky Lu, a food delivery driver’s world unravels over 48 hours after his bike is stolen, threatening not just his livelihood but the family future he has fought to build.
Reel Reviews | Copper (TIFF ’25)
A mine worker’s quiet life in rural Mexico takes an unexpected turn when he stumbles upon a dead body in Nicolás Pereda’s Copper.
Reel Reviews | Ky Nam Inn (TIFF ’25)
In Leon Le’s Ky Nam Inn, a young translator and a widowed cook find solace in post-war Saigon. Subtle, poetic, and quietly haunting, the film trades melodrama for glances, silences, and unspoken longing.