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Reel Reviews | Steal Away (TIFF ’25)

5 September, 202529 August, 2025FilmGordon

Clement Virgo’s Steal Away is a layered coming-of-age drama that blends desire, culture, and survival.

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Reel Reviews | Motor City (TIFF ’25)

5 September, 20255 September, 2025FilmGordon

Motor City is a gritty, stylish revenge thriller where the score often speaks louder than the characters, turning minimal dialogue into a driving force for tension and atmosphere.

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Reel Reviews | A Private Life (TIFF ’25)

4 September, 20254 September, 2025FilmGordon

Jodie Foster delivers a magnetic French-language performance in Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life, a darkly intimate tale of disconnection, grief, and blurred realities.

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Reel Reviews | The Choral (TIFF ’25)

4 September, 20254 September, 2025FilmGordon

Ralph Fiennes leads Nicholas Hytner’s The Choral, a poignant WWI-era drama that explores music as both refuge and resistance.

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Reel Reviews | Katrina: Come Hell and High Water

27 August, 202520 August, 2026FilmGordon

Serving as a bookend to When the Levees Broke, Lee captures survivor stories while examining resilience, inequities, and the cultural endurance of New Orleans.

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Reel Reviews | Caught Stealing

27 August, 202528 August, 2025FilmGordon

Austin Butler leads Darren Aronofsky’s gritty crime thriller Caught Stealing, where a washed-up baseball phenom turned New York bartender gets pulled into a violent spiral after agreeing to do one simple favor for his neighbor.