Reel Reviews | One Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another fuses satire, family drama, and revolution into one explosive ride.
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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.
Reel Reviews | Driver’s Ed (TIFF ’25)
Bobby Farrelly’s solo outing leans into the buddy-comedy tradition with a light teen road trip romp, that never finds a fresh lane.
Reel Reviews | Aki (TIFF ’25)
In Aki, filmmaker Darlene Naponse transforms the seasonal rhythms of Atikameksheng Anishnawbek into a meditative, dialogue-free portrait of land, memory, and resilience.
Reel Reviews | Eleanor the Great (TIFF ’25)
Scarlett Johansson steps confidently behind the camera with Eleanor the Great, a tender and deeply human debut about grief, resilience, and rediscovering community.
Reel Reviews | Eagles of The Republic (TIFF ’25)
With Fares Fares delivering one of his most layered performances yet, this final chapter in Saleh’s Cairo trilogy is sleek, paranoid, and compelling, though not without flaws.