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.
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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 | 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.
Reel Reviews | Ruth & Boaz
Faith, love, and redemption meet in Ruth & Boaz, a modern retelling of the biblical story brought to life by Seriyah, Tyler Lepley, and Phylicia Rashad.
Reel Reviews | The Man in My Basement
Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe headline The Man in My Basement, Nadia Latif’s adaptation of Walter Mosley’s acclaimed novel.
Reel Reviews | Dead of Winter
Trapped in a frozen Minnesota wilderness, a grief-stricken loner becomes an unlikely hero when she stumbles upon a kidnapping in Brian Kirk’s icy survival thriller.