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.
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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.
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.